Originally posted by lee anoma
any African blood were put on the Freedmen roll, even if they were half Cherokee. Those with mixed-white and Cherokee ancestry, even if they
were seven-eighths white and one-eighth Cherokee, were put on the Cherokee by blood roll. More than 75 percent of those enrolled in the Cherokee
Nation have less than one-quarter Cherokee blood, the vast majority of them of European ancestry.

Good Grief, the debate still continues to this day?
If that isn't racism it's certainly a manifestation of a racial inferiority complex. I mean after all it WAS the white man that all but annihilated
the natives.
So basically a white person thats 1/8th Cherokee is a tribal member but a black person thats HALF Cherokee is not? And to this day they are still
"iffy" on whether to allow Cherokee with black blood into the tribe? Wow.
Listen my grandmother was half-Cherokee but I never claimed to be Native, yet I'd always be surprised to see those blond-haired blue-eyed individuals
dressed up in Native gear and claiming to be one. Even if the blood link went back generations. Not only that, they were readily accepted into the
group.
This article reminds me of something I heard during a debate regarding the Muslim mosques and racial acceptance. One member of the church, a young
Muslim guy said something to the effect of: "We are accepting of other races and no one goes out of their way to point out the differences, however
usually when a black joins they are allowed to work in the daycare areas...etc...but when a white man joins it's as if the church wants to make him
the next Imam!" It was funny but a little sad too.
I'd noticed this before but I was surprised that a Muslim actually said it themselves.
I say the black Cherokee decedents, whose relatives were actually
SLAVES of the Cherokee deserve as much as anyone else to have a place in the
tribe.
Give me a break.
[Quote]I agree with you and many of those black descendents could have more Cherokee blood in them than many white native descendents. By using the
'Dawes Rolls' they are discriminating against black descendents whom some even have a full-blood Cherokee grandfather, which is why I think it's
ridiculous to go by an 1866 treaty.[edit on 5-3-2007 by lee anoma]
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