there was a huge political conflict in the muskogee nation. one signed a treaty saying all of the lands would be gone and they would move out west. that chief was executed. the united states, the only time they repealed a treaty, the united states did repeal that treaty, even though it had been ratified. the negotiations following that, his followers were allowed to move west to oklahoma, and they settled in the area -- towns like broken arrow started growing up there. in 1830, they set up a system where land in the east would be exchanged for an equivalent amount of land in the west. so the tribes have lands that were proportional to the lands they were giving up back. originally it was set where the cherokee would take lands north of the arkansas river and the muskogee would take lands between the arkansas and the south canadian and the choctaw and the chickasaw would take lands between the south canadian and the red river. but the time that the federal got out here to negotiate boundaries, a lot of cherokee had already sold between the arka

national football league. [laughter] last but not least, dr. suzan shown harjo. suzan is muskogee and an advocate for american indian rights. poet, writer, lecturer, curator and policy advocate who has helped me to the recover more than 1 million acres of tribal lands. [applause] after a career in media she moved to washington d.c. to work on national policy issues. she served as congressional liaison for indian affairs and the president jimmy carter administration and later as director of the national council of american -- i'm sorry, the national congress of american indians. i knew that sounded wrong. suzan is president of the morningstar institute, national native american rights organization and most recently was the recipient on november november 24th of last year at the presidential medal of freedom, the united states highest civilian honor. [applause] so let's start with the one of lies who has dealt with this issue face-to-face so to speak. and that is june. jim, you spent some time as a professional football player. what are your memories and how do you remember this mas