I agree, and while I can be aware of the suspicion that the vote was
evidently driven by an agenda and those who were pushing it [and
those who bothered to get out and vote], it does seem a sad day for
the Tribe as a whole, they will all be tarred by this, including many
who no doubt had no racial agenda. They just had better things to do
on a nice spring Saturday.
Nancy
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--Daniel Boone
On Mar 4, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Anita Wills wrote:
> You can continue to say that, but the backlash is going to be on
> the Cherokee. They were one of the Five Civilized Tribes, those who
> wanted to emulate the white man. In the end the white man treated
> them just like the rest of the Tribes (the ones they sold out), and
> sent them on, The Trail of Tears. The Cherokee are the first to
> talk about the US Government not honoring Treaties, and then you do
> the same thing. You can keep pointing that finger at the
> government, but your own leaders are gloating and bragging (on the
> news), that this is democracy at work. What is good for the goose
> is good for the gander.
>
> Anita
>
>
>> From: Coats Family History <[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: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 08:14:14 -0800
>>
>> 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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