Incumbent Chief Chad Smith has filed an appeal with the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court challenging the results of the recently held election, where at different times he has been declared the winner and the loser.
An article in today’s Tulsa World discussing the case can be found here.
Smith’s appeal to the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court can be found here.
Order of the Supreme Court setting the hearing in the case for Friday, July 8 can be found here.
Turtle Talk 
My name is Wendy Clark I’m am 1/8 Cherokee indian. My Great Great Grandfathers names was George Washington Hawk. He was on the Trail of Tears and came from Warren Tennessee. He had built a School house and later on it turn into a Church of Christ. I have been told by a college professor Charles Stanley who worked for the historical society in Oklahoma for 25 yrs and others indian
s that I look like Wilma Mankiller. All over my paper work it showed he was a spirit walker. Many Blessings Wendy
George Hawk of Wexford County, Michigan? Wife Emily?