Well Dave, it appears the Cherokee delegation has dropped out of the draft.Facts are not popular with some folks. An example -—Africans are not Indians. [American indigenous people]
I think that other tribes/nations have standards (percentage of blood) that must be met to be considered a member. I’m thinking that the Cherokee are drawing a line. Might seem unfair on the face of it, but if your great, great, grandad was half-cherokee, then your claim is pretty weak.
I guess will see here real quick who’s the top dog in the liberal caste system.
Cherokee people
Cherokee tribe
So proud to live
So proud to die
But I thought they were noble savages much better than the white European scum that despoiled this contry.
Franklly, I think it is time to disgard the tribal concept and funding. Let the Indians keep the land they were bequethed, but no more indian nation. Have them be governed by US law.
These folks must enjoy sticking a stick in a hornets nest because that’s exactly what they’ve just done!
That’s racist, Kemosabe.
Hey, you think the Cherokees are going to share that casino $$$$$ with anyone they don’t have to??? The blacks were their “brothers” until there was real money involved.
Excluding anyone who is not 100% is a Cherokee thing. My sister married a Cherokee. She died 2 years ago and the tribe revoked the Cherokee status of her 2 kids, because they weren’t 100% pure.
They receive nothing from the tribe. Cherokees are first class bigots.
I think this is all about sharing the casino profits.
Follow the money.
My then 8 year-old son remarked to an 8 year-old Cherokee girl he was trying to befriend that his great-great-granddad’s mother was Cherokee. Her reply: “The white Indians don’t get no money.” No eight year-old comes up with that on his/her own.
Indians had slaves??? Next, they’ll be saying that blacks had slaves. Or worse, that black Africans sold other blacks into slavery. What is up is now down...
BTW, Will the blacks be allowed to work in the casinos?
After greater than 150 years, even the Cherokees don’t want them. Sad....
The Black Caucus will now extend its nation-wide anti-Tea Party tour to include protests at Indian casinos. “Share the loot!”
Well Dave, it appears the Cherokee delegation has dropped out of the draft.Sadly this is true, and, though slavery is no longer ubiquitous, it is widespread and deeply entrenched in some parts of the word--even in the 21st century.
Slavery is one of the most horrible evils ever devised.
Those interested in its abolition should contact the American Anti-Slavery Group: http://www.iabolish.org/
"their embrace of the institution predated the white settlers’ arrival"
Definitely. Indian tribes routinely employed both slavery and torture before and after the arrival of Europeans. This includes the Indian tribes living along the Atlantic Coast of North America.
"Some Indians made slaves of Europeans as well as Africans."
Yes. This was one of the dangers of the frontier--even when the frontier was within the original thirteen English colonies along the Atlantic Coast: capture and enslavement of Europeans, especially European children. The Spanish in Florida encouraged this. They considered the English colonies to be illegal occupation of Spanish lands and their Protestant religion to be heresy. They encouraged the kidnapping of English children as a benevolent rescue of them from heresy--nevermind that they remained Indian captives, unenlightened by Catholicism.
okay....NOW can we all admit that all of this racial gerrymandering is stupid and destructive?
I’m not sure but I think the Cherokee are matrilenial. So the child of a slave woman would not count.
funny!