I gather that you found it strange that a woman who was not full blood Cherokee would fight to keep people who had no Cherokee blood out of the tribe. I don’t find that strange, and don’t think anyone who isn’t descended from someone on the Dawes rolls should be allowed in. Even though that hurts me just as much as any freedmen descendants as a blood test would more than likely get me in the tribe.
that hurts me just as much as any freedmen descendants as a blood test would more than likely get me in the tribe.
You probably meant the blood test would not let you in the tribe, either, right? But, imagine if your family had been accepted into the nation generations ago because they had been slaves in the tribe, and you had been living as a citizen of the nation generations later, only to have that citizenship revoked suddenly.
What's ironic isn't that they're denying people admittance if they have no evidence of Cherokee blood. The ironic part is that a hero of the Democrats, hailed for "bettering" the Cherokee Nation, dismissed a bunch of people whose families were with that nation a lot longer than she was, based on bloodlines, and the Dems are willing to overlook that part of the story.