Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. and other Cherokee Nation leaders joined the tribe’s Language department to sign an amended Durbin Feeling Language Preservation Act on Thursday, June 25.

Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. recently signed an executive order establishing a task force to study the expansion of wellness centers on the reservation.

The Cherokee Nation observed Juneteenth at the Cherokee National Peace Pavilion in Tahlequah, marking the holiday with updates from the Principal Chief's Advisory Committee on Freedmen Art and History and the announcement of a loan agreement with Northeastern State University on an archive map created by students at the Cherokee Freedmen High School in 1903.

Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. signed a Council resolution authorizing him to negotiate and execute an agreement with Northeastern State University that would designate NSU as a Public Health and Wellness Higher Education Partner and pave the way for repatriation of tribal archive materials.