Well arent' all of the tribal members going to vote, including the Freedmen 
descendants?

Anita


>From: Clara Callahan <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history         
>      <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Cherokee Election March 3rd Q&A
>Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 11:27:06 -0800
>
>What the Cherokee trying to enforce a requirement for membership might 
>define as justice appears to be quite the opposite of what possibly 
>soon-to-be-denied-members might define as justice.
>
>   I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "mere" tribalism.  We are, 
>after all, talking about a tribe here.  Are you saying that Indian tribes 
>are free to act tribally until they offend someone's sensibilities, at 
>which point "tribalism" becomes a yucky thing they shouldn't be allowed to 
>continue?
>
>Jurretta Heckscher <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>   Dear Clara:
>
>I would hope you gonna root for whomever is being treated unjustly.
>The alternative is mere tribalism, the source and justification for
>much of the world's injustice in the first place.
>
>--Jurretta Heckscher
>
>On Mar 3, 2007, at 1:54 PM, Clara Callahan wrote:
> >
>
> > We just finished a couple of weeks of conversation about what those
> > whites did to those poor Indians and what those whites did to those
> > poor blacks. Now the conversation has turned to what those Indians
> > are doing to those poor whites and blacks. So far on this board no
> > one is championing either "minority" which, considering the past two
> > weeks' conversation, I find quite interesting. What does one do when
> > one "minority" goes up against another "minority"? Who you gonna root
> > for, the descendents of slaves, the descendents of whites who married
> > Indians, or the descendents of Indians?
> > This oughtta be good.
> >
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