hmm, I'm not familiar with this....

There is a Cherokee Nation on the Qualla Reservation in North
Carolina, we call them the Eastern Cherokee, they did not participate
in the Trail of Tears, their ancestors hid in the Smokey
Mountains...they do btw have a blood quantum requirement and you must
be able to document your ancestory back to one of the Eastern
Rolls....

Charlotte

On 3/3/07, Sunshine49 <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> There seems to be  a big shake-up in Cherokee culture in general now;
> I have read in several sources of the identification of their
> ancestral homeland, a mountain in NC, with remains and conditions as
> discovered being pretty much as the legends have always said existed,
> and now there is a fight going on within the Cherokee about what to
> do with it; some want to keep it private, a sacred tribal spot;
> others want to build at least part of it, develop it and make it a
> tourist destination. Which, personally, I find appalling. The world
> will never run out of places and excuses for yet another 'tourist
> destination'; culturally sensitive and sacred places are vanishing
> like the Dodo. There needs to be a time when any people must keep in
> mind what is left to future generations, and not just the short-term
> gain.
>
> Nancy
>
> -------
> I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
>
> --Daniel Boone
>
>
>
> On Mar 3, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Debra Jackson/Harold Forsythe wrote:
>
> > The term "badge of slavery" was used in John Marshall Harlan's
> > famous dissent in Plessey v. Ferguson (1896) over racial
> > segregation.  Since it was used in a dissent, it is barely a term
> > of art in constitutional law, let alone a title for a doctrine.
> > One might as well argue, as some on the far right have, that
> > citizenship acquired under the 14th Amendment is a badge of
> > slavery.  Moreover, the Cherokee were not required to sign the
> > treaty, they could have taken the consequences of not signing it.
> > American Indians will probably never take the 'coercion' legal
> > argument to court for fear that whites will make similar claims to
> > disallow Native American treaty claims.
> >
> > In any case, a treaty that is over 140 years old will almost
> > certainly stand.  The legal issue will be about what the treaty means.
> >
> > I remember reading in John Rembar's The Law of the Land, that
> > equity does not favor those who sleep on their rights.  A major
> > question that will undoubtedly come up in court is why the
> > Cherokees in 2007 are voting to remove people from the tribal
> > structure who have been free men and women within the Cherokee
> > Nation since Cherokee self-emancipation (that you refer to.)
> >
> > Harold S. Forsythe
>
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