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      In the Amazon, Giving Blood but Getting Nothing

      Posted by theangryindian from New York Times

      “We were duped, lied to and exploited,” Renato Karitiana, the leader of the tribal association, said in an interview here on the tribe’s reservation in the western Amazon, where 313 Karitiana eke out a living by farming, fishing and hunting. “Those contacts have been very injurious to us, and have spoiled our attitude toward medicine and science.”

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      Posted by theangryindian from Angryindian.blogspot

      This past Saturday, the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma went to the polls and legally ejected the descendants of former African. What this amendment means is that the descendants of the Freedmen, the ex-slaves originally owned by the nation and were made citizens of the Cherokee Nation by an 1866 treaty, will no longer by entitled to Tribal recognition. Legal, or otherwise. More than 2,000 people (including this writer) have been kicked out of the nation as a result.

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