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2023 Cherokee Nation Tribal Council Elections
The 2023 Cherokee Nation tribal council elections took place concurrently with the 2023 Cherokee Nation principal chief election and 2023 Cherokee Nation deputy chief election on June 3, 2023, with runoff elections, where necessary, held on July 8, 2023. The Cherokee Nation's Tribal Council is made up of seventeen Tribal Councilors elected from the fifteen districts within the reservation boundaries and two at-large seats. In 2023, tribal council elections were scheduled to be held for districts 1, 3, 6, 8, 12, 13, 14, and for one of the at-large seats. Background The 2023 Cherokee Nation elections were scheduled to take place on June 3, 2023, with runoff elections scheduled for July 8, 2023. The swearing in of elected officials took place on August 14, 2023. The election was the first election where the Cherokee Nation Election Commission had an in-house investigator to investigate election code violations. The election also utilized 70 new voting machines to replace the ol ...
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Keith Austin
Keith Austin is a Cherokee Nation and American politician who served on the Cherokee Nation tribal council representing the 14th District between 2015 and 2023. Career Austin owns All Points Delivery. In May 2013, he was appointed to the editorial board of the Cherokee Phoenix on which he served until November 2014. Cherokee Nation tribal council In 2015, Austin ran against William "Bill" Pearson for the 14th District of the Cherokee Nation tribal council seat in a race to succeed Lee Keener. Keener had retired to run for deputy chief. In June, Pearson won the initial general election by one vote, leading Austin to file for a recount. After the recount, both candidates vote totals decreased, and Pearson maintained a 6-vote lead. In July, Austin appealed to the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court arguing "14 votes were cast and shouldn't have been, three were rejected that should have been accepted and two ballots were lost." The court ruled for a new election to be held alongside the a ...
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July 2023 Events In The United States
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June 2023 Events In The United States
June is the sixth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and is the second of four months to have a length of 30 days, and the third of five months to have a length of less than 31 days. June contains the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the day with the most daylight hours, and the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, the day with the fewest daylight hours (excluding polar regions in both cases). June in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent to December in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa. In the Northern Hemisphere, the beginning of the traditional astronomical summer is 21 June (meteorological summer begins on 1 June). In the Southern Hemisphere, meteorological winter begins on 1 June. At the start of June, the sun rises in the constellation of Taurus; at the end of June, the sun rises in the constellation of Gemini. However, due to the precession of the equinoxes, June begins with the sun in the astrological sign ...
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2023 Oklahoma Elections
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in ...
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2023 Tribal Elections In The United States
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in ...
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Julia Coates
Julia Coates is a Cherokee Nation politician serving as one of the two at-large Cherokee Nation tribal councilors since 2019. She was one of the first elected at-large tribal councilors in 2007 and served until term limited in 2015. Early life and education Julia Coates was born in Pryor, Oklahoma to Glen Coats and Janis Essex Coates Rea. She double majored at San Francisco State University in anthropology and creative writing, earned a master's of arts and PhD in American Studies from University of New Mexico before doing a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California. She also was an assistant professor of Native American studies at University of California Davis. 1999 Cherokee Nation constitutional convention Coates was a delegate to the 1999 Cherokee Nation constitutional convention. The night before the convention, Coates organized a meeting of the fourteen off-reservation delegates to strategize creating off-reservation representation during the convention ...
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Joe Deere
Joe Deere is a Cherokee Nation politician who has served on the Cherokee Nation tribal council representing the 13th district since 2019. Cherokee Nation tribal council Deere first ran for the Cherokee Nation tribal council in 2011 against Lee R. Keener Jr.; he lost the race. Deere filed again in 2019, this time against district 13 incumbent Buel Anglen. Deere challenged Anglen's candidacy under the 1999 Cherokee Nation Constitution's term limit provisions and the Cherokee Nation Election Commission disqualified Anglen from running. The Cherokee Nation Supreme Court affirmed the Election Commissions decision. With Anglen disqualified, Deere was unopposed in the 2019 election. The court dismissed a later appeal by Anglen for a new election. He was sworn on August 15, 2019. He is running for re-election in the 2023 Cherokee Nation tribal council elections The 2023 Cherokee Nation tribal council elections took place concurrently with the 2023 Cherokee Nation principal chief elec ...
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Dora Patzkowski
Dora Patzkowski is a Cherokee Nation politician who has served as the Cherokee Nation tribal councilor for the 12th district since 2019. Cherokee Nation tribal council Patzkowski first ran for the Cherokee Nation's 12th tribal council district in 2015, against incumbent Dick Lay. Lay won re-election with 61% of the vote. Lay was term limited in 2019, and Patzkowski ran again, this time against Phyllis Lay, Todd Branstetter, and Don Scott. She advanced to the runoff alongside Phyllis Lay, the retiring incumbent's wife. She won the runoff with 63% of the vote. She was sworn in on August 14, 2019. She is running for re-election in the 2023 Cherokee Nation tribal council elections The 2023 Cherokee Nation tribal council elections took place concurrently with the 2023 Cherokee Nation principal chief election and 2023 Cherokee Nation deputy chief election on June 3, 2023, with runoff elections, where necessary, held on Jul .... References Members of the Council of the Cheroke ...
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Daryl Legg
Daryl Legg is a Cherokee Nation politician who has served as the member of the Cherokee Nation tribal council for the 6th district since 2019. Early life, education, and career Legg served three prison sentences for drug possession (two in Arkansas and one in Oklahoma) before attending classes with the Cherokee Nation re-entry program, which assists formerly incarcerated Cherokee Nation citizens with finding jobs, housing, and school after release. He later graduated from Northeastern State University in 2006. After graduation, he started working with the Cherokee Nation and, by 2009, became a director in the Cherokee Nation vocational education program. From 2013 to 2019, Legg worked as the Cherokee Nation's Career Services Coming Home Re-entry Program director. In 2014, he was named a "Champion of Change" by the Obama administration for going from being sentenced three times for drug possession, to running a re-entry program for Native Americans. He was elected in Sallisaw, ...
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Joseph Tali Byrd
Joseph Tali Byrd is a Cherokee Nation and Quapaw Nation politician who served as the Quapaw Nation Chairman from 2020 until his resignation in 2023. Early life and family Joseph Tali Byrd is the son of Joe Byrd (Cherokee Nation) and Suzy Moore ( Quapaw Nation/Osage Nation). He earned his bachelor's degree in business administration from Northeastern State University and a master's degree in Indian law from the University of Tulsa College of Law. He later worked as the marketing manager for Downstream Casino Resort and as the compliance manager for Cherokee Nation Entertainment. He interned with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Tribal Justice in the summer of 2019 while attending the University of New Mexico School of Law, where he graduated with a Juris Doctor in 2020. Quapaw Nation chairman Byrd defeated longtime Quapaw Nation Chairman John Berrey in the 2020 election, earning 544 votes to Berrey's 325. Berrey had been chairman for the past 20 years and was s ...
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Lisa Hall (politician)
Lisa Robison Hall is a Cherokee Nation politician who has served as the Cherokee Nation tribal councillor for the 3rd district since 2023. Career Prior to running for office Hall worked as a trust accounts administrator at the Bureau of Trust Funds Administration's Cherokee Agency (part of the Bureau of Indian Affairs), in the Cherokee County county clerk's office, and for the Cherokee Nation’s Indian Child Welfare and Realty departements. Cherokee Nation tribal council Hall ran for the Cherokee Nation's 3rd tribal council district in 2023 in a six candidate election against Joseph Tali Byrd Joseph Tali Byrd is a Cherokee Nation and Quapaw Nation politician who served as the Quapaw Nation Chairman from 2020 until his resignation in 2023. Early life and family Joseph Tali Byrd is the son of Joe Byrd (Cherokee Nation) and Suzy Moo ..., Sara Drywater-Barnett, Dyllon Fite, Brandon Girty, and Brian Speake. She advanced to a runoff alongside Sara Drywater-Barnett, which she ...
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