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Black Cherokees: Race, Casino Money The Reason Citizenship Revoked

Accusations of greed and racism are being hurled at the Cherokee nation one week after the tribe decided to revoke the citizenship of nearly 3,000 descendants of freedmen — former slaves who Cherokees once owned.

According to Marilyn Vann, the leader of the Freedman, race, politics and millions of dollars coming in from tribal casinos are leaving Blacks in the cold; and leaders of the Cherokee nation with the power to put their friends

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Aug 24, 2011 at 12:56 pm

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Cherokee Nation Revokes African-Americans’ Tribal Citizenship

On Monday the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court decided to terminate the tribal citizenship of nearly 3,000 Black descendants of freedmen–former slaves who had been owned by Cherokees.

The ruling comes several months after a district court granted equal tribal citizenship rights to descendants.

Monday’s 4-1 decision, overturned the district courts ruling, citing that the judge did not have the right to overturn an 1866 Cherokee constitutional amendment.