Ellie Melero Two Confederate monuments commemorating the Cherokee Nation’s role in the Civil War were removed from the Cherokee Nation’s Capitol Square in Tahlequah on Saturday, almost 100 years after they were installed.The monuments, a fountain memorializing Confederate soldiers and Gen. Stand Watie and a granite monument honoring Watie, were removed under the supervision of Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr.“I think for many people, the Confederacy is a reminder of the painful period of slavery, of the ripping apart of our nation,” Hoskin said in a news release. “That kind of pain...…Ellie Melero Two Confederate monuments commemorating the Cherokee Nation’s role in the Civil War were removed from the Cherokee Nation’s Capitol Square in Tahlequah on Saturday, almost 100 years after they were installed.The monuments, a fountain memorializing Confederate soldiers and Gen. Stand Watie and a granite monument honoring Watie, were removed under the supervision of Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr.“I think for many people, the Confederacy is a reminder of the painful period of slavery, of the ripping apart of our nation,” Hoskin said in a news release. “That kind of pain...WW…