Posted on 11/29/2018 2:31:07 AM PST by T-Bird45
A Supreme Court case about jurisdiction in an obscure murder has huge implications for tribes.
On the morning of June 22, 1839, the Cherokee leader John Ridge was pulled from his bed, dragged into his front yard and stabbed 84 times while his family watched. He was assassinated for signing the Cherokee Nation’s removal treaty, a document that — in exchange for the tribe’s homelands — promised uninterrupted sovereignty over a third of the land in present-day Oklahoma. That promise was not kept.
Sixty-seven years later, federal agents questioned John’s grandson, William D. Polson. They needed to add him to a list of every Cherokee living in Indian Territory to start the process of land allotments. Through allotment, all land belonging to the Cherokee Nation — the land John had signed his life for — would be split up between individual citizens and then opened up for white settlement. And by this grand act of bureaucratic theft, Oklahoma became a state.
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Good history read - this is not being extensively covered here in OK. An adverse decision by SCOTUS could upset lots of apple carts. I need to find some more reporting on the actual discussion from the justices. If anybody has a good link, it would be greatly appreciated.
...gee,wonder what their backyards were like back in 1839.
Liberals want to punish OK to get back for its being a Red State.
Its all about politics with those folks. Has nothing to do with Native Americans anymore than Khashoggi has anything to do with Trump.
I know them like the back of my hand.
Why is there no reservation in Europe for the Goths?
There’s a concerted effort I’m seeing.
Look for more and more articles on Indian genocide by Americans.
Not balanced articles.
On the morning of June 22, 1839,..
QUICK!! SOMEONE CONVENE A GRAND JURY!!
Quick! Punish Okies for being conservative! They must be made an example of.
This has nothing do with America’s alleged 19th century sins.
The UN has been behind BS like this.
They would love nothing more than to fiddle the US with Frst Nations nonsence.
The UN has been behind BS like this.
They would love nothing more than to riddle the US with Frst Nations nonsence.
The victor takes the spoils. It has always been that way.
Start with Mahanattan and every lying swindling trinket-peddling racist shivering in his burrow.
My Homestead Patent from 1901 says “forever”, in regards to the homesteaders and their families being entitled to keep the land.
there is that one CD that just elected a Democrat Kendra Horn , first Dem in 44 years. /s
Return Manhattan to the Indians. They were cheated out of it.
All Cherokee Nation members need to be given a DNA test and if they are not at least 51 percent they should lose their tribal membership.
Problem solved.
You’re absolutely right
Red states need to know that blue states are using DV to engage in elimnationism of their political opponents.
We should give back all the land of DC to natives
I have a tiny homestead here in Maryland, not quite 11,000 square feet. I don’t recall anything in the paperwork saying it is forever, though. I wonder why the difference.
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