Raging legal battle between Cherokees and Feds ignores historical facts - National Native American History | Examiner.com: "The six year old effort by the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma to expel 2,800 Black Cherokee members entered a new round this week, when the Department of the Interior threatened to withhold funds from several programs, if Black Cherokees are not reinstated on the tribe’s citizenship rolls. The tribal leadership, aggrieved Black Cherokee citizens and Federal officials have all based their positions on Civil War Era treaties, rather than the actual history of the tribe. Its true history paints a much more complex picture of the controversy."
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