The Vote is to determine whether or not you must show that you have a
Cherokee Blood line...some Freedmen can do that others can not...just
as with the whites if they can not prove a Cherokee Blood line back to
a Dawes Roll ancestor they can not be Cherokee Citizens...many full
bloods can not trace back to an ancestor on the Dawes Roll and are not
citizens...been like that for ions...

This is an interesting issue since, it pits an 1866 Civil War treaty again
modern day Self Determination by the Cherokee Nation...actually the
Civil War Treaty is a badge of slavery for both the Freedmen and the
Cherokee...

If you think this is bad, you see what the California Indian Tribes
are doing, that is sad....

Charlotte


On 3/2/07, Sunshine49 <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> for what it's worth... this is really sad to see...
>
> Nancy
>
> Cherokees may expel slaves_ descendants
> The 250,000-member Cherokee Nation will vote in a special election
> Saturday whether to override a 141-year-old treaty and change the
> tribal constitution to bar "freedmen," the descendants of former
> tribal slaves, from being members of the sovereign nation.
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17407728/from/ET/
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