Folks,

    Thought you would want to read this posting from H-SLAVERY regarding 
Indian nations' attempts to oust freedpeople from their ranks.

Harold S. Forsythe
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From: "Mintz, Steven H" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 9:21 AM
Subject: FYI Cherokee Nation votes out former slaves' descendants


From: Paul W. Romaine [mailto:[log in to unmask]]


 Cherokee Nation votes out former slaves' descendants
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/04/cherokee.freedmen.ap/index.html?eref=rs
s_latest

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The petition drive for the ballot measure followed a March 2006 ruling
by the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court that said an 1866 treaty assured
freedmen descendants of tribal citizenship.

A similar situation occurred in 2000 when the Seminole Nation voted to
cast freedmen descendants out of its tribe, said attorney Jon Velie of
Norman, an expert on Indian law who has represented freedmen descendants
in previous cases.

"The United States, when posed the same situation with the Seminoles,
would not recognize the election and they ultimately cut off most
federal programs to the Seminoles," Velie said. "They also determined
the Seminoles, without this relationship with the government, were not
authorized to conduct gaming."

Ultimately, the Seminole freedmen were allowed back into the tribe,
Velie said.
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