[RowdyFFC]

Sure it does. The freed men are DEAD! Unless they’re a blood relative, NOBODY qualifies for jack squat!

[muawiyah]

The blood quantum business came along with the Dawes rolls. There was no blood quantum at the the time of the 1865 treaty.

No doubt a Dawes exception should have been included but who knew?!

Frankly, if this is no longer the Cherokee nation of history but some new creature that wants to dissolve all bonds with its past (as serious slave masters dating back to before Europeans came here), then I think it's time to dissolve the 1865 treaty.

Without that treaty there is no Cherokee nation.