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Published January 17, 2008 03:54 pm -
P.M. UPDATE: Cherokee council adopts arts and crafts act
TAHLEQUAH — The Cherokee Nation Tribal Council has
adopted an act requiring truth in advertising for Native American
art .
The act requires anyone selling Native American art in the
Cherokee Nation to be a citizen or a member of a federally
recognized Native American tribe.
“This act has been a long time in coming,” said Tribal
Council Member Cara Cowan-Watts, representing Rogers
County. “For far too long, non-Native Americans or others
claiming to be members of non-recognized tribes have sold art as
true Native American art. This act will help to stop some
of these sales. Anyone buying Native American art in the
Cherokee Nation can be better assured that the piece was
created by a true Native American.”
The Council also passed an Indian housing plan which will
help the tribe create attainable Cherokee communities. Parts
of the plan include land acquisitions for the tribe and
for housing needs throughout the 14-county jurisdictional
boundary of the Cherokee Nation.
In other business, the Council passed a resolution honoring
the accomplishments of Mary Ross, a 100-year-old Cherokee
citizen who became one of the first female Native American
engineers. Ross worked for the North American Space
Administration and assisted with the first lunar moon landing in
1969.
The next regularly scheduled Council meeting will be at 6
p.m. Feb. 11 in the Tribal Council Chambers at the Cherokee
Nation complex south of Tahlequah.
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