[VeniVidiVici]

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."

Sounds like they're taking lessons from Mr Farrakhan and La Raza.

[Beckwith]

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

Do these people own casinos?

If so, that's why they are doing this. It's all about the money.

[GladesGuru]

"Sounds like they're taking lessons from Mr Farrakhan and La Raza.'

Actually, they are being the tribal society that they have always been. Tribes tend to be far less tolerant than present day American society.

Add in the possibility of either loss of, or diminuition of , unearned money, and tribal behavior can turn out to be simply "savage".

Think of the bitter fights amongst the members of the smallest of tribes, the heirs at the reading of the will of their "Dearly Departed".