Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Cherokees told to take back slaves' descendants



A federal order for one of the nation's largest American Indian tribes to restore voting rights and benefits to about 2,800 descendants of members' former slaves threw plans for a special election for a new chief into turmoil Tuesday.

The federal government sent the sternly-worded letter to the Cherokee Nation after it sent letters last week kicking the descendants out of the tribe and stripping them of benefits including medical care, food stipends and assistance for low-income homeowners.

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1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, who do they think they are? Blacks have fought with them. Oh, so now that they have rights to set up casinos and are now making all of that money they are shunning us, huh? These aren't real Indians anyway. Real Indians are copper colored, these newbies taking advantage of the system are white skinned government issued indians. They're fake. They just want to feed off of the system. Every black person needs to boybott Indian Casinos!