Posted on 06/17/2020 8:57:49 AM PDT by Perseverando
George Washington dictated a "talk" to the Cherokee Nation, August 29, 1796:
“Beloved Cherokees, The wise men of the United States meet together once a year, to consider what will be for the good of all their people ...
I have thought that a meeting of your wise men once or twice a year would be alike useful to you ...
I now send my best wishes to the Cherokees, and pray the Great Spirit to preserve them.”
Twelve of the original 13 states sent delegates to Philadelphia. (Rhode Island boycotted the Convention.)
Instead of rewriting the Articles of Confederation, they drafted the U.S. Constitution.
George Washington opened the Constitutional Convention, stating:
"The event is in the hand of God."
The 55 delegates who wrote the U.S. Constitution belonged to the following denominations:
26 Episcopalian, 11 Presbyterian, 7 Congregationalist, 2 Lutheran, 2 Dutch Reformed, 2 Methodist, 2 Quaker, 2 Roman Catholic, and Dr. Franklin, who called for prayer at the Constitutional Convention, June 28, 1787, stating:
"In the beginning of the contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection.
Our prayers, Sir, were heard and they were graciously answered.
All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a superintending providence in our favor ..."
He continued:
"I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God Governs in the affairs of men.
And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? ..."
Franklin concluded:
"We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings,
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Yes. Next question.
The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story Kindle Edition
by Tiya Miles (Author)
But first, we wanted to talk about one of the many complicated stories that involve race and heritage. While it is well-known history that slavery was a common practice in the Deep South before the Civil War, less well known is the fact that it wasn’t just white families that were slave owners.
Some well-to-do Native Americans also owned slaves. In fact, the late Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Wilma Mankiller wrote in her autobiography that, quote, “The truth is that the practice of slavery will forever cast a shadow on the great Cherokee Nation,” unquote.
Indeed that shadow continues today in the latest iteration over the debate over just who to include as members of the Cherokee Nation. The Cherokee Supreme Court has stripped some of the slave descendents known as freedmen of their Cherokee citizenship in the decision last month.
At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill in Georgia, the most famous plantation in the southeastern Cherokee Nation. In this first full-length study to reconstruct the history of the plantation, Tiya Miles tells the story of Diamond Hill’s founding, its flourishing, its takeover by white land-lottery winners on the eve of the Cherokee Removal, its decay, and ultimately its renovation in the 1950s.
This moving multiracial history sheds light on the various cultural communities that interacted within the plantation boundaries—from elite Cherokee slaveholders to Cherokee subsistence farmers, from black slaves of various ethnic backgrounds to free blacks from the North and South, from German-speaking Moravian missionaries to white southern skilled laborers.
Moreover, the book includes rich portraits of the women of these various communities. Vividly written and extensively researched, this history illuminates gender, class, and cross-racial relationships on the southern frontier.
The problem is media pop culture has replaced Christianity.
That’s us the cause of all the craziness.
One only has to look up and read the original State Constitutions of the thirteen original States to verify this.
There was quite a conflict in MO, ARK, and OK among the pro-slavery and anti-slavery Cherokee, and between the Old Settler Cherokee who saw the writing on the wall and moved west before 1811, and those who came later in the 1830s with their slaves on the Trail of Tears. There were assassinations and skirmishes.
US Supreme Court - Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States (1892)
Thanks for the feedback.
The families of and the Cherokee men, who fought on the North side and who ended up in our SW, after the Civil war:
Often had little if anything to do with their earlier Cherokee cousins in the reservations.
They lived with their white neighbors, married their white neighbors, went to church with them and some were the pastors/preachers. Others were teachers, blacksmiths, farmers, ranchers, carpenters and store owners.
Then, when they filled out their census data, marriage license data and later Drivers’ licenses, they listed themselves as W. aka White!
That has screwed up genealogists for over a century. Then, if they had any African DNA bloodline, that was ignored in their census data.
However, even Ancestor.com will show if you have a drop of African DNA, and often zero Cherokee blood even if your great grandparents were documented as offspring of Cherokees and the other “civilized” tribes via printed documentation.
Most if not all had State Religions, that would be better defined as Denominations of Christian Churches then Religions. In fact that would eliminate entire arguments especially if the Supremes understood it, but they don't.
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