The Cherokee Indian tribe has sent out letters saying that the descendants from slaves will no longer be allowed to be part of the tribe. The descendants have also been stripped of medical benefits, food assistance, and homeowners’ assistance. Read more after the jump.
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One of the nation’s largest American Indian tribes has sent letters to about 2,800 of descendants of slaves once owned by its members, revoking their citizenship and cutting their medical care, food stipends, low-income homeowners’ assistance and other services.
The Cherokee Nation acted this week after its Supreme Court upheld the results of a 2007 special vote to amend the Cherokee constitution and remove the slaves’ descendants from tribal rolls.
Olive Anderson of Kansas City, Mo., calls the letter she received “a slap in the face.”
Black slaves owned by individual Cherokees were freed after the Civil War. An 1866 treaty gave them and their descendants “all the rights of native Cherokees.”
More than 76 percent of Cherokee voters approved the amendment stripping the descendants of their citizenship.
KSPR
This has set us back 400 years….Racism is back in full effect. OBAMA what r u going to do, because its because of U!!!!!
Hmm…so,in a sense its really because of U? are u sure u took a min,to,reread it? between the lines!,”you know….Beyond (ur)opinion? when i read the article ,racial discrimination didnt cross my mind, r u upset for them due to now they cant claim to be cherokee and recieve the benifits? would u say that in 1866 its was passed that slaves and cherokees were equal? so wouldnt it be same as obama saying hispanics no longer need a green card they will be “GIVIN” all the rights of African Americans….when it should be… all the rights of a “Human being”? Are u saying that the cherokee are racial?..That they were not slaves…ok hows this,perhaps in 1866 slaves were givin there “rights” and independence.. it took till 2007 for them to get theres,..IGNORANCE has no color or creed ! plus the date that u were blaming and accusing ..(racisam) the day that it unfortunatly took a tragedy of all races for us all to become one and the same!..humans of earth!period!
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