Yes, all members will vote...:)

On 3/3/07, Anita Wills <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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