TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) — The challenger has a lead in the hotly contested race for chief of one of the nation's biggest American Indian tribes.
A Sunday count of votes cast in person put longtime Cherokee Nation councilman Bill John Baker ahead of former Principal Chief Chad Smith by 61 percent to 39 percent. The tribe's Election Commission says Baker had 6,223 votes to Smith's …
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