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America's 2nd Largest Indian Tribe Expels Blacks
NPR ^ | September 20, 2011 | Interview NPR

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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TOPICS: History; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: 2011; indians; nativeamericans; slaves
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“....Story is from 2011....”

LOL...didn’t see that.
Well, I still don’t rightly blame em...even without today’s PC climate.


61 posted on 06/16/2020 6:55:54 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
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To: VeniVidiVici

Interesting ... Will the BLM morons call the Cherokees racists for doing it?


62 posted on 06/16/2020 7:38:54 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (WFLA's Jack Harris: Brooklyn is missing their village idiot. Right you are, Jack.)
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To: VeniVidiVici

But did they get rid of their white members from MA?


63 posted on 06/16/2020 9:12:15 PM PDT by lurk
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To: Trumpet 1

“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.


64 posted on 06/17/2020 5:12:54 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' Baby, Molon Labe)
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