If, as was pointed out here elsewhere, a relatively small portion of  
the registered Cherokee voters actually voted, it would seem you have  
a situation as we have in too many US elections- those motivated by  
an agenda get out and vote in their agenda. The rest sit home. Sad.  
As the saying goes, democracy is not a spectator sport.

Nancy

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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

--Daniel Boone



On Mar 4, 2007, at 10:42 AM, [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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