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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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