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Cherokees deny rights to slave decendants

This week the Cherokee tribal court denied citizenship to the descendants of former tribal slaves. This means 2,800 slave descendants have been denied their rights again by the Cherokee Nation –in effect this nullifies the 1866 treaty at the end … Continue reading

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