Here is the streaming video of the Cherokee Nation Council meeting. It opens with an audio selection of Cherokee choral music.
Walden: I clicked on the link and it just closed me out of the internet. I tried it twice and it did the same thing both time. Not sure why, I guess my system is wonky or something.
All the Best,
Tom
Looks like some kind of unsupported proprietary protocol. Probably something by Microsoft. Try copying the address in the link and feeding it to Microsoft Media Player.
Here is the link to the Web page. It is the video file of the most recent session. http://www.cherokee.org/TribalGovernment/TriGovStreamingArchive.asp
I get the link as
mms://cnavacast.cherokee.org/archive/government/tribalgovernment/StateOfTheNation2003.wmv
“mms” is not an official Internet protocol. The browser i’m using right now (Opera) doesn’t know what to do with it. I tried plugging this URL into Windows Media Player and it didn’t complain (suggesting to me that it “knows” that protocol). It didn’t work either, but that could be because of a firewall or other network problem (or even because of the version of the Media Player i have).
Oh well, you can download a whole CD here: http://www.cherokee.org/Extras/DownloadsPage.asp?ID=6
And for Christmastide:
http://www.cherokee.org/Extras/DownloadsPage.asp?ID=8
Thanks for the clip Walden. The link worked fine for me. I assume that is the Cherokee language. My wife appreciated it since she has a number of Cherokee ancestors. One of the family died there in Oklahoma in the 1880s. This was the first time she had heard the Cherokee spoken or sung.
Ron
Yes. Not a widely-spoken language, but one that (not unlike some other languages, the world over) is enjoying a revival.
Mmm…
Glaubers link worked fine for me, though I could not get passt the first ten minutes. ( Tired and Emotional)
The first five minutes looked like a K.K.K rally(ahem…) and the rest of it looked like something I know only to well, a native people reclaiming what belongs to them.
Maybe tomorrow i wiill get the rest of it and have a totally different take on it, till then…
Shlan (hic),
D.
I would imagine the Klan would differ with your equation.
Opposite forces often have similar patterns.
Nationalism is ,after all, a state of mind.
Shlaaaaaan,
f.
Nations behave nationally, the KKK act counter-nationally,
in their hatred and in their degradation (and in some cases,
outright destruction) of all peoples who are not white Anglo-Saxons.
I’ve no shame in my citizenship in both the United States of America
and in the Cherokee Nation. I’ve no shame in being of mixed ancestry.
Hi all,
There seems to be some confusion as to my recent posts about this Cherokee video if the pm i have just got is representitive of the general mood.
Let me state that my allegiance in this matter is totally with the oppressed and disposessed native americans and that the Klan represent to me nothing except pure evil.
The person who sent me the pm accused me of being British and therefore would not understand the plight of the native americans. Just to set the record straight, I am Irish and my family have been active in Republican affairs for many,many years , at the end of the day the plight of the native Americans is no different to the plight of Irish Republicans living in the north of Ireland.
I assure you all that no offence was intended and if any of you have been offended (though I still can’t figure out how!) i offer my sincere apologies
Slan, D.
Interesting that this should come up just now. My daughter just became engaged to a Cherokee from OK.
By the by, one of my best friends and her kids, who seem to gravitate to my kids at school and church, is Cherokee.
This afinity with Native Americans may be a genetic thing. My grandmother had a wandering eye and the family gossip is that my father is part Lakota. 
Hey, I’m just 100% American.
And I am now listening to the choir sing America the Beautiful.
Very sweet.