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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: SiouxPal who wrote (327778)3/4/2007 5:00:13 PM
From: longnshort  Read Replies (2) of 1578410
 
Ah your racist Indians at work. I guess they are one with nature.

Cherokees revoke black citizenship
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Members of the Cherokee Nation voted yesterday to revoke the tribal citizenship of an estimated 2,800 descendants of people the Cherokee once owned as slaves.
With a majority of districts reporting, 76 percent voted in favor of an amendment to the tribal constitution that would limit citizenship to descendants "by blood" of tribe members as listed on the federal Dawes Commission's rolls from more than 100 years ago.
The commission, set up by a Congress bent on breaking up Indians' collective lands and parceling them out to tribal citizens, drew up two rolls, one listing Cherokees by blood and the other listing freedmen, a roll of blacks regardless of whether they had Indian blood.
Some opponents of the ballot measure argued that attempts to remove freedmen from the tribe were motivated by racism. Tribal officials said the vote was a matter of self-determination.
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