 The Cherokee National Council overrode Bushyhead's veto, setting up discrimination against the Freedmen that has haunted relations among tribal members into the 21st century.He also dealt with issues of railroad rights-of-way, land allotment under the Dawes Act, education, white intruders, tribal citizenship, and grazing rights.On September 6, 1869, Bushyhead married a widow, Elizabeth Alabama Adair, née Schrimsher, from Fort Gibson.