Once again this is a Cherokee by Blood issue....Cherokee democracy at work...

The Freedment didn't sign the 1866 treaty and the US forced the
Cherokees to enter into that treaty...

Once again not the Cherokee Nation's fault, the Dawes choose to record
the information the way they did...

I have no family stories of slaves among my Cherokee ancestors...so I
admit no knowledge of slaves and their owners....

Charlotte



On 3/4/07, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> There is a United Cherokee Tribe of Virginia that celebrates their ancestry
> in the state.  They were mostly located in the mountains in the SW part of
> the state.
>
> The Cherokees were slaveowners and while they banned the ownership of  Indian
> slaves in the early 18th century as a tribal matter, they collected and  kept
> Black slaves up until 1866 when that ended via treaty with the US.   See,
> Theda Perdue, Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society.  The  Cherokee were
> notoriously cruel slave owners and developed great skill in  tracking down
> runaway slaves for white owners;  however some had a habit of  killing the Black
> slaves once they found them and so the Cherokee fell out of  favor as slave
> catchers.  Seems like this dislike for their Black brothers  goes a ways back.
> 76% is a pretty telling indication of how the tribal  members still feel.
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