The only folks that believe it is unjust are those that are not
Cherokee by Blood or can not prove an Ancestor on the Dawes Roll or
both...

They were original BIA rules and not meant to be just but to wipe out
the Indian Nations....:)

On 3/3/07, 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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