Posted on 08/14/2023 7:01:45 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
oday we travel to Cherokee in North Carolina to witness a tribe that's doing extremely well financially. Kids graduate high school with hundreds of thousands of dollars set aside in an account, higher education and health care are paid for by the tribe, and their land is some of the most beautiful in America. Join me for this eye-opening experience!
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Close down the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Why do we allow citizens of their own sovereign nations to vote in our elections and receive our tax money?
All because they refused to go with the government plan to move them off their land.
Because all the beads they made by hand are now made in ... China.
The Cherokee don’t get tax money or need it. BIA, though, they get plenty, supposedly to see to the needs of the Cherokee, who are making a fortune off of compulsive gamblers’ folly.
When I visited Cherokee NC years ago it was the most depressing place I’d ever been. We had to drive around two Indians passed out in the middle of the street. There was a skinny, sickly black bear in a cage in the middle of town.
We couldn’t get out of there fast enough.
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Seems they’ve since gotten their act together.
I am (small) part Cherokee (not to sound “Warren-like”) but my ancestors were on the Hester rolls and my great-great-great grandfather was full Cherokee (his name was Dragging Canoe).
Anyhow, what I find the most fascinating is how well the tribe keeps ancestry records. When I remarried, and my husband wanted to adopt my son, the adoption attorney had to get the written approval of the Cherokees. It is a formality, but it is important for their genealogy records.
Another thing I love, is how they stood up to the liberals trying to get rid of the Braves name and the Tomahawk Chop in Atlanta. Basically they said it did not bother them, they are proud of their heritage and appreciate all the Braves organization has done for their community.
The Cherokee of the late 1700s and early 1800s were often wealthy plantation owners with African slaves.
The real story of the Cherokee
Cherokee, N.C. is like one big carniavl with the carnie hawkers out front. It is a dirty place. The only reason that people got there is to go the casino.
I read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee as a boy, and attended the Watonka Indian Dance Society in Buffalo on Friday nights. It was alright. Then I discovered my own Jewish heritage and Friday nights were out. Glad to see that the Cherokee, at least, are making out ok.
Great post, so informative, thanks.
This is very different from the Pine Ridge Sioux. The anger that consumes them is killing them and the Federal government is not helping.
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hehe....you’re dating yourself
Seems they’ve since gotten their act together.
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Things change over time and sounds like theirs
was for the good.
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The luck of the draw. It all depends on whether the Indian casino on tribal land is a profitable enterprise or not and the number of tribal members on the tribal land that share in it. The less, the better. These guys lucked out.
Fascinating. Also, it’s a model of what U.S. early settler descendants/loyal veterans/Constitutional patriots can aim for once the shooting is over, if we lose. Have a huge reservation and start over. Start some sin businesses that the woke overlords will want (render unto Caesar), but otherwise keep the wokesters out.
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