This is not about historical fairness, or anything about history at
all, except the use of racial characterization in the service of
greed. This is about how, one group is forcing another group away
from the money table so "there will be more for me."
-- Stephan
On 4 Mar 2007, at 11:14, Coats Family History wrote:
> 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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