Gov. Kevin Stitt on Tuesday named Wes Nofire to the $100,000-a-year, non-Cabinet post. Nofire said his time in boxing broadened his perspective on politics.
Since the McGirt ruling, the number of criminal cases the Cherokee Nation Attorney General’s Office handles has increased from less than 100 cases to almost 4,000.
A House committee weighed a proposal to seat a delegate from the Cherokee Nation in Congress, holding a historic hearing that grappled with how to uphold a promise made in a nearly 200-year-old treaty that has yet to be fulfilled.