[rabidralph]

Very interesting factors in this story. Here's another snip, regarding possible reasons for expelling the black indians

SNIP...Advocates of expelling the freedmen call it a matter of safeguarding tribal resources, which include a $350 million annual budget from federal and tribal revenue, and Cherokees' share of a gambling industry that, for U.S. tribes overall, takes in $22 billion a year. The grass-roots campaign for expulsion has given heavy play to warnings that keeping freedmen in the Cherokee Nation could encourage thousands more to sign up for a slice of the tribal pie.

"Don't get taken advantage of by these people. They will suck you dry," Darren Buzzard, an advocate of expelling the freedmen, wrote last summer in a widely circulated e-mail denounced by freedmen. "Don't let black freedmen back you into a corner. PROTECT CHEROKEE CULTURE FOR OUR CHILDREN. FOR OUR DAUGHTER[S] . . . FIGHT AGAINST THE INFILTRATION."

End of SNIP

Read the rest of the story here

[river rat]

""Don't get taken advantage of by these people. They will suck you dry,"

This guy has it all figured out.
Too bad our government hasn't figured out the same thing...

Semper Fi

[toddlintown]

Take a drive from Phoenix to the Grand Canyon, look at the homes of the "noble" Indians on the reservations, count the rusted cars on cement blocks on their properties.

Better yet, go up to Minnesota and talk to sportsmen who have to pay licensing fees and permits to stock game fish and contend with a multitude of government conservation regulations. Have them explain to you how Indians spear undersized game fish, take all they want (limits? We don't need no stinking limits? and deplete the lakes and rivers of game fish that tax payers provided.

Indians have gotten a free ride on our tax dollars for way too long because of white guilt. Now they want to start a knife fight over gambling money.

[dfwgator]

Now I got that damn Paul Revere song in my head.

[cougar_mccxxi]

"PROTECT CHEROKEE CULTURE FOR OUR CHILDREN. FOR OUR DAUGHTER[S] . . . FIGHT AGAINST THE INFILTRATION."

Very interesting coming from the Cherokee nation. A few things come to mind while reading this story.

First, why are the Indian tribes allowed the right to self-determination when white Americans are not?

Second, I think I can hear the tribes laughing at how stupid American people are for not having the same sense of self-determination by filling the coffers of those that would do them and their children harm with a smile on their face.

Third, didnt the US have a stroke during the 80's over South Africa doing very similar things, aka apartheid?

Fourth, where the heck is the outrage from such pivotal (tongue in cheek) black leaders and groups such as Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the NAACP, Rainbow Coalition?

Fifth, the Cherokee statement of self-determination when used by whites is called racism. Why is it ok for minorities to have an agenda of self-determination while whites are only allowed to have an agenda of multi-culturalism?

Sixth, I'm sick of hearing people complain about the cost of living and in the next breath planning their casino getaway for the weekend.

Did I mention I'm not a big fan of the Indian gambling racket?

[Osage Orange]

FWIW-----

I think this amendment..or whatever they are calling it passed.

IOW, the Freedmen have been voted out of the Cherokee tribe.

[Balding_Eagle]

Huh!

Should we (America) do that too? Cast out any decendents of slaves?

[Fiddlstix]

[daybreakcoming]

ARTICLE 9. The Cherokee Nation having, voluntarily, in February, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, by an act of the national council, forever abolished slavery, hereby covenant and agree that never hereafter shall either slavery or involuntary servitude exist in their nation otherwise than in the punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, in accordance with laws applicable to all the members of said tribe alike. They further agree that all freedmen who have been liberated by voluntary act of their former owners or by law, as well as all free colored persons who were in the country at the commencement of the rebellion, and are now residents therein, or who may return within six months, and their descendants, shall have all the rights of native Cherokees: Provided, That owners of slaves so emancipated in the Cherokee Nation shall never receive any compensation or pay for the slaves so emancipated.

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