Whitey Ford
02-26-2021, 04:53 AM
A disgrace!
The Cherokee Nation acknowledges that descendants of people once enslaved by the tribe should also qualify as Cherokee
https://i.imgur.com/9PAHZgx.jpg
A longstanding dispute over who can be considered a citizen of the Cherokee Nation finally came to a conclusion this week.
The Cherokee Nation Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the tribal nation remove the phrase "by blood" from its constitution and other tribal laws. That change formally acknowledges that the descendants of Black people once enslaved by the tribe -- known as the Cherokee Freedmen -- have the right to tribal citizenship, which means they are eligible to run for tribal office and access resources such as tribal health care.
"Freedmen rights are inherent," Cherokee Nation Supreme Court Justice Shawna S. Baker wrote in the opinion. "They extend to descendents [SIC] of Freedmen as a birthright springing from their ancestors' oppression and displacement as people of color recorded and memorialized in Article 9 of the 1866 Treaty."
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/us/cherokee-nation-ruling-freedmen-citizenship-trnd/index.html
Meanwhile, Jeep shouldn't be allowed to call a model of their vehicles a Cherokee.
Chief of Cherokee Nation wants Jeep to stop using tribe’s name on SUVs (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/22/chief-of-cherokee-nation-wants-jeep-to-stop-using-tribes-name-on-suvs.html)
The Cherokee Nation acknowledges that descendants of people once enslaved by the tribe should also qualify as Cherokee
https://i.imgur.com/9PAHZgx.jpg
A longstanding dispute over who can be considered a citizen of the Cherokee Nation finally came to a conclusion this week.
The Cherokee Nation Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the tribal nation remove the phrase "by blood" from its constitution and other tribal laws. That change formally acknowledges that the descendants of Black people once enslaved by the tribe -- known as the Cherokee Freedmen -- have the right to tribal citizenship, which means they are eligible to run for tribal office and access resources such as tribal health care.
"Freedmen rights are inherent," Cherokee Nation Supreme Court Justice Shawna S. Baker wrote in the opinion. "They extend to descendents [SIC] of Freedmen as a birthright springing from their ancestors' oppression and displacement as people of color recorded and memorialized in Article 9 of the 1866 Treaty."
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/us/cherokee-nation-ruling-freedmen-citizenship-trnd/index.html
Meanwhile, Jeep shouldn't be allowed to call a model of their vehicles a Cherokee.
Chief of Cherokee Nation wants Jeep to stop using tribe’s name on SUVs (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/22/chief-of-cherokee-nation-wants-jeep-to-stop-using-tribes-name-on-suvs.html)