Posted on 06/16/2020 4:09:03 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici
The Cherokee Nation recently stripped citizenship from a majority of African-Americans who descended from slaves of wealthy Cherokee Indians before the Civil War. Host Michel Martin discusses this controversial move with MacArthur Fellow Tiya Miles, who studies interrelated histories of African-Americans and Native Americans.
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“....Story is from 2011....”
LOL...didn’t see that.
Well, I still don’t rightly blame em...even without today’s PC climate.
Interesting ... Will the BLM morons call the Cherokees racists for doing it?
But did they get rid of their white members from MA?
“So maybe this is all about who gets special permission to open up a place of business.”
In the series Longmire, there is a segment where the Crow tribe votes to remove those who are not fully Crow as a result of a new casino and wanting to share proceeds from said casino with as few as possible this giving those pure indians more money.
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