a new cherokee newspaper printed in english and cherokee and publish laws of the cherokee nation and spread news about education and the literary zone. those of the cherokee team. he set up a shop in a new, stalin -- cosmopolitan capital. cherokee phoenix was the first newspaper ever published by a core indian in an indian language. the first issue of february of 1828 is an excerpt in english and cherokee constitution that lowers prayer and editorial. recognizing including cherokee a little more than savages, the capacity for progress and justification for a hopeful future. there was abundant evidence that indians with a proper advantages are incapable of that and more than any other people. even as he declared in the pages of the phoenix became suspect. what was more prophetic when a cherokee discovered gold and cherokee land in the summer of 1828, georgia invaded indian country in droves and cherokees complained about the intrusion on their homeland but it became quickly obvious that they were aided and abetted by a president who was elected the year before. they properly belong to

>>> and now, daniel blake smith recalls president andrew jackson's seizure of cherokee nation land and the cherokees' forced migration that resulted in the deaths of thousands during their journey from the southeast united states to oklahoma territory known as the trail of tears. it's about 45 minutes. .. >> i thought what i would do this evening would be to showcase the work and hope to my reading ability to separate the very brief excerpt from the book. and hopefully you'll want to come to buy yourself. and then i will turn to general comment and then be glad to take questions. the effect, not bothering to describe, the 94 june 21, 1839, more than 100 we cherokee had met in tocaloma. it was a group of men scribble three names on the list. major ridge, john ridge and another. all three were quickly found guilty. their crime, betraying the cherokee nation. the penalty was death. early the next morning,. [inaudible] and little rock creek near the arkansas border. certain of the justice admission they fear the retribution. and their minds finish other people not only sanction but demande

sense, the treaty part was calling attention to race and the need for a completely independent cherokee nation. thus, remaining in their homeland where cherokees would soon be inundated by a racist white wood would, as he put it, fasten the manacles of the people's future. led inevitably toward becoming extinct or emerged in another race. may god preserve us from such a destiny. it was, of course, the tenacity of the treaty party that shaped the destiny of the cherokee nation in the struggle of removal. boudinot and ridge had no way of knowing that it would lead to a trail of tears. what they did know was settlers were invading their country, evicting people from their home, stealing property and violently attacking anyone who resisted. removal offered an alternative to these, but it also produced the misery and death of the trail of tears which would linger for generations. as we have seen, they paid the ultimate price for their choice to remove x that choice was a fervently held vision that in the end the moral as well as physical condition of their people mattered. ross lost the battle over

he's enrolled in the cherokee nation, his daughter native american. under the law it's designed to preserve native american family. new year's eve the family had to turn their daughter over to mr. brown. he left charleston driving back to oklahoma with his daughter. take a listen. we just got some sound from the parents. >> said when we had to do the transfer, it was like he was failing her as a father to send her off with people she didn't know, what she must think of us. >> she had this in my mind, a really confused look on her face. i always remember her crying after us when we had to walk out of that office and leave her there. >> everybody keeps saying how bad they feel for us. but i mean, she's a 2-year-old girl that got shoved in a truck and driven to oklahoma with strangers. >> it's a very difficult case. they say brown signed a waiver giving up his rights. his attorney just told me he was tricked into doing so just before he went on a one-year deployment to iraq. so he filed this lawsuit under the indian child welfare act. the attorney for th

her biological father is a member of the cherokee nation and under the indian child welfare act, he was able to take the toddler back. more details on that story for you shortly. >>> a teenage runaway who claimed she was a 21-year-old colombian in the u.s. illegally is now back home in texas. jakadrien turner's family says she went missing months ago until something popped up on facebook that made them start searching in colombia. >> we don't know when she was really deported. but that's when i saw her, on facebook, when i saw that picture. and colombia is right there to the side, where you are shows up on facebook. and it had colombia there. so i started looking it up. >> reporter: is this a colombian newspaper? >> no, facebook. >> facebook, on the computer. but i had a detective to check it for me. it wasn't her regular detective. it's the one that came to the shop and they checked it. and she was in colombia. i knew it all the time. but i just wanted to prove to other people that she was there. >> the teenager's family says they intend to sue the u.s. government agencies that mistake

everyone knows about the trail of tears the cherokee nation. all thirty nine tribes in oklahoma have a trail tear story because there are no exception of the club was originally from the mississippi delta the mouth of the arkansas river mississippi river all the way across southern oklahoma was originally as they were discovered there in seventeen sixty seven by the french and at the time the discovery of was estimated that the quapaw could fill seven to eight thousand more years which put the estimate in a population of about thirty five thousand kuapa the major village was so gop and today they call themselves the gop and cloth all is french perversion and. in a just kind of fell that way so here in seven hundred sixty seven a smallpox plague hits the try and begins to wipe them out and you can read it in the record in the congressional record i've read it is says that the coffee house are no longer the tribe they used to be coffee was do not have the right to occupy the whole southern half of arkansas and we need to take that and give them a

. >> the assistant attorney general for the cherokee nation says the law is clear. >> some of the protections provided by the child welfare act, there's a placement preference, if children are removed by the state or if they're placed in private adoption placement. the first preference is for a family member. >> reporter: but in cases like this, what about the child? >> everybody keeps saying how bad they feel for us. but i mean, she's a 2-year-old girl who got shoved in a truck and drove to oklahoma with strangers. >> they thought it would happen on new year's day, but it happened on new year's eve, a lot sooner than they had prepared for. they got to spoek speak to her the day she was taken away. she said i love you, i love you. >> reporter: their daughter starting the new year with an entirely new family, the only family veronica has ever known, starting the year without her. d dustin brown's attorney said he would have won custody regardless in south carolina. the family plans to appeal to the south carolina court of appeals. >>> we're learning new information this evening about an atlant

he is enrolled in the cherokee nation, his daughter, partially native american. so through the courts, he was able to get his daughter back from matt and melanie. as you can imagine, they didn't rell realize that this would happen a day sooner than they had predicted for it to happen. >> she's adorable, too. >> they raised her since her birth. they say this was an open adoption that. they know her biological mother. but given the court's decision, they had to basically transfer their daughter over to dustin brown. this happened, again, on new year's eve. they thought it would happen new year's day. we actually have an interview with the family that was taken just after that transfer happened from our affiliate wciv. take a listen. >> matt said when we had to do the transfer, it was like he was failing her as a father, to send her off with people that she didn't know, what she must think of us. she had in my mind a really confused look on her face which just -- but i'll always remember her crying after us. we had to walk out of that office and leave her there. >>

called the indian child welfare act, basically because he is native american enrolled in the cherokee nation also his daughter being partially native american, he was able to get her back under this law that basically aims to keep indian families together to protect the integrity of the indian family. so on new year's eve, rather, this family met in charleston, they thought they'd have a little more time to prepare themselves to turn over their daughter, but they had less time than they thought, they turned her over to dustin brown who drove off to oklahoma. we have an interview with the family before a gag order came through where they spoke to wciv, our affiliate. here's what they had to say. >> matt said when we had to do the transfer it was like he was failing her as a father. to send her off with people that she didn't know, what she must think of us. she just had this -- in my mind -- a really confused look on her face, which just -- but i'll always remember her crying after us when we had to walk out of that office and leave her there. >> everybody keeps saying, you know, how bad they

. >> reporter: the assistant attorney general for the cherokee nation says the law is clear. >> some of the protections provided by the indian child welfare act, there's a mrailsment preference if the child is removed by the state or if they're placed in private adoption placement. the first preference is for a family member. >> reporter: but in cases like this, what about the child? >> everybody keeps saying how bad they feel for us, but, i mean, she's a 2-year-old girl who got shoved in a truck and driven to oklahoma with strangers. >> reporter: the couple thought the transfer would happen on new year's day, but it happened on new year's eve, a lot sooner than they were prepared for. they've gotten to speak with veronica once a day after she was taken away. >> she said, hi, mommy! hi, daddy! she sounded really excited to hear us. she said, i love you, i love you, numerous times. >> reporter: their daughter starting the new year with an entirely new family, the only family veronica has ever known starting the year without her. >> george howell joins me live in the studio. george, ou

. >> reporter: the assistant attorney general for the cherokee nation says the law is clear. >> sometions provided by the indian child welfare act, there's a placement preference. if children are removed by the state or if they're placed in private adoption placement, the first preference is for a family member. >> reporter: in cases like this, what about the child? >> everybody keeps saying how bad they feel for us, but i mean, she's a 2-year-old girl that got shoved in a truck and driven to oklahoma with strangers. >> reporter: the couple thought the transfer would happen on new year's day, but it happened on new year's eve. a lot sooner than they were prepared for. they've gotten to speak with veronica once. a day after she was taken away. >> she said, "hi, mommy, hi, daddy." she sounded really excited to hear us. she said, "i love you, i love you," numerous times. >> reporter: their daughter starting the new year with an entirely new family. the only vaem er ha-- family vea has ever known starting the year without her. brown's attorney released a statement saying that the indian

surrender their 2-year-old daughter veronica to her biological father because he is a member of the cherokee nationnew he was put up for adoption and winning custody after using a indian child welfare act. they want to place the children first with their own tribes. the law originally intended to preserve culture and families. in this case they're fighting it because this is a family that went through in vitro, seven different attempts, before they finally -- >> that child lived with them for two years? >> the child did. the mother gave the baby up for adoption and apparently the father didn't know. >> it's tragic. that's tragic on both sides. >> it is. >> there's a father who wants his child and adoptive parents who have a child. >> and the law. the obscure law that occasionally gets used. >> really sad story. >>> another weird one, too, out of connecticut. a paramedic -- i'm not sure i ever heard of this happening before. >> crazy. >> facing sexual assault. i really want to see this one come to trial because i would like to see the evidence and details on this one. the paramedic allegedly -- he's

the cherokee nation's language tool formed formed an innovative partnership with apple computer's toegrate in the cherokee language. >> they develop cherokee language software for use on mcintosh computers and iphones and ipods and ipads. students even chat on line in cherokee with students from the eastern band of cherokee's in north carolina. this is a powerful example of tribal innovation and the type of innovation that is vesting tribes with greater authority over our gnome print -- programs. whether it's economic development -- [applause] whether economic development or are education, health care or energy, the key to getting it right is the freedom to identify and tear down barriers to our success. tribal leaders carry with us a dream. it's a dream passed down from our parents and our grandparents. it doesn't look forward to 21,242,016. it looks to the seventh generation. we see a future where trust relationship actually works. it works for tribal nations and it works for our federal partners. our ancestors knew the tribe could govern our nations and govern ourselves like no on

the cherokee nation's lynch which -- language emergence school board a partnership with toppled to implement technology in the cherokee language. they developed cherokee language software for use on a macintosh computers, iphones, ipads. students chat on line in cherokee with students in north carolina. this is a powerful example of tribal innovation and initiative, the type of innovation that comes from greater authority over our own programs. [applause] weather in economic development, education, health care, or energy, the key to getting it right is the freedom to identify and tear down the barriers to our success. tribal leaders carry with us a dream. it is a dream passed down from our parents and grandparents. it does not afford to 2012 or 2016. it looks to the -- it does not look forward to 2012 or 2016. we see a future where the relationship works for tribal nations and our federal partners. our ancestors knew the tribes could govern our nations and ourselves like no one else. today we have proven it. residents of rural oklahoma are driving to our health facilities because they offer

adoption the jurisdiction, the ruling lies with the native american tribe, and that's the cherokee indian nationed proceedings only four months after signing that document to have veronica back. megyn: you can never adopt a native american child without having to worry at some point -- at any point down the line you will have to give him or herb back? >> the senator who wrote this law says it has been misused in this particular case. back in '78 children were taken out of their homes by private and public agencies. that's not what we have here. we don't have that here because we have that waiver. frankly, the judge here should have said what's in the best interests of this child. the best interests of this child is not to have a taught more had virtually no contact with this child for two years to take that child out of the only home that she knew. and what did he say? he didn't understand the waiver? this is a soldier who fights for this country and he can't say i signed a voluntarily a waiver giving up my parental rights and suddenly two years later i don't understand the document? megyn: it's

nation is sort of like the iroquois of the south. they have a lot of other tribes that depend on them. the cherokee, the choctaw. if we can sign a treaty with them, we can avoid indian removal. this is a big, big deal. one of the great failures of the found sgt inability to reach a just settlement with the native americans. and washington and knox devote most of his first term. this is the thing washington really cares about. nobody has written about this. >> and he had a lot of dealings himself. >> his earlier dealings and during the french and indian war, wouldn't necessarily clue you in to the fact that he was as -- he changed by this time. washington had. he really wanted to avoid indian removal because he believed that native american populations had a right to the soil and to dispossess them was it violate the principles of the revolution. and knox agreed with him. in fact when you read some of knox's stuff, it is almost like a cultural anthropologist today writing about the need to preserve and what they want to do is create a series and -- the key political position which in fact still obtains, that's ho

the nation's language immersion schools formed an innovative partnerships with apple computers to integrate technology and the cherokee language. they develop the language software for use on macintosh computers come iphone come ipod and ipad. students even chat online and cherokee with students from eastern cherokee in north carolina. this is a powerful symbol of the tribal innovation and at the top of innovation that's investing tribes with greater authority over our own programs unleashed. whether an economic development -- [applause] whether an economic development for education, health care, energy, the key to getting it right is the freedom to identify and tear down barriers to our success. tribal leaders carry with us a dream. it's a dream passed down from our parents and grandparents. it doesn't look forward to 2012 or 2016. it looks to the seventh generation. we see a future where the trust relationship actually works. it works with tribal nations in the works for our federal partners. our ancestors knew tribes could govern our nations and ourselves like no one else. today we've proven that. residents of rura