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Markwayne Mullin: “I never knew I was special for being Cherokee until I went…”

Featuring: Markwayne Mullin, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin | BRCC #326

Published | Video Starts at 49:38

And then there's a. There's a couple others. I just. I'm forgetting who they are. How's that? But that's not a big deal to me. I mean, listen, I didn't. I never knew I was special for being Cherokee until I went to Washington, D.C. because where I'm from, everybody's Native American. So what I say is they're Indian or they want to be Indian. And I didn't know there was any difference between healthcare services, because I grew up always going to ihs, which is Indian Health Services. (49:38–49:45)

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Asserts that being Cherokee was not considered special in his hometown.

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