Stop IHS Take Over

We, the undersigned, Cherokee Nation Citizens, Native American Citizens of other Tribes,and U.S. Tax payers demand that the Committee on Indian Affairs of the United States Congress immediatelycall a halt to the consideration ofthe Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma (CNO), a bogus entity usurping the Cherokee Peoples Sovereign rights and snubbing their noses at the U.S Congressional authority, as mandated in the U. S. Constitution, effort to take over the Operation of the Federally mandated IHS in Tahlequah Oklahoma.

We also demand, without equivocation, that the United States government, on behalf of All Native American people That use the IHS in Tahlequah, protectourrights to the best possible health serviceand stop this head-long rush into this take overby the leader of CNO, Chief Chadwick Smith.

Should Smith'sactionscauses the shut down of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma because of deception and dishonesty, and by the Congressional Act HR2824 by Congresswoman Watson.

Smith is looking for continued funding for his regime in that the funding for W.W. Hastings will continueas a treaty mandated Hospital,with his claim that the million's of dollars in operational funding is a waste and could be converted to better services, these funds is what he is looking at for his continued funding.

The fact of dictatorial style Cherokee politics determining the quality of our hospital care is the most frightening situation imaginable. Under the rein of Principal Chief Chad Smith's Junta, this is the apex of the worst decisionto be considered yet by Smith. Whowould dareeven think of tribal politics playing a vital role in a life or death medical decision within their life, could possibly be good? Tribal clinics caring for minor emergencies is one thing. But involving tribal politics in critical hospital care is beyond comprehension.