The court should keep hands off.

[Jameson]

Cherokees Pull Memberships of Freed Slaves
By MURRAY EVANS
AP

OKLAHOMA CITY (March 4) - Cherokee Nation members voted Saturday to revoke the tribal citizenship of an estimated 2,800 descendants of the people the Cherokee once owned as slaves.

With all 32 precincts reporting, 76.6 percent had voted in favor of an amendment to the tribal constitution that would limit citizenship to descendants of "by blood" tribe members as listed on the federal Dawes Commission's rolls from more than 100 years ago.

More:
http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/cherokees-pull-memberships-of-freed/n20070304095009990004?ncid=NWS00010000000001

[dPrasse]

The honest , honorable , peace loving decent "true" Americans owned slaves ?!? That ought to git Libs heads exploding !! bwaahhaa !!

[Maggie_T]

It's all an invention of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy! How dare they! Don't they know that the only ones degenerate enough to keep slaves are evil white males? Ask Jesse Jackson, for crying out loud.

Honestly. :flame:


:evilgrin:

[Wolfcounsel]

I hope this at least stops a huge number of Indian wannabes from claiming to be part Cherokee, as if there are no other Indian tribes in America besides them.

[DesertFox]

According to the flick The Outlaw Josie Wales (5 stars, by the way), the Cherokee were one of the five "civilized tribes."

But according to Paul Revere and the Raiders, one of these days the Cherokee nation will return!

[Phil Osophical]

Oh Jeez! It seems like everybody wants to be an Indian, or part Indian so they can get some of those federal dollars and open a tax-free casino.

In this area, there is large population that calls itself "Lumbee Indians." The Lumbees are demanding federal recognition so they they can officially claim minority status and get all the special privileges and benefits like all other minorities (can't say as I blame them). I've got more Indian blood than they have. (I think my great, great, great grandfather was a Cherokee or something.) And there's a lot of Cherokees around here too, but they don't look like Indians to me.

I wanted to be a minority and special citizen also so I tried to apply to become a Cherokee but was rejected. They discriminated against me and I consider them to be a bunch of racists.

[Wolfcounsel]

My grandfather was Indian, but I never asked him (I was too young), and my mother told me once what type, but it didn't register. Anyway, it's a Mexican Indian, so it's a different topic. More coffee!:evilgrin:

[DeclinetoState]

Also posted here (http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/showthread.php?t=45067).