Posted on 11/25/2022 3:43:25 AM PST by blueplum
I was friends with a mixed race girl in college.
She considered herself black, but was proud of her Cherokee heritage.
She was shocked when I explained how that, probably, came to be.
The Cherokee and most of the “5 Civilized Tribes” turned on the settlers and allied with the British, in the War of 1812.
Thousands of settlers were slaughtered, along the frontier, at the behest of the British, after years of living peacefully with the Whites.
After America won the war, it was felt that the once peaceful coexistence would not return.
Actually, Nighthorse Campbell was a Congressman before moving to the Senate.
Ben Riefel if South Dakota comes to mind too
Not taking anything from the Cherokee; lots to be proud of there.
If it's not, a lot of land in North Georgia could be changing hands.
Ok, the Cherokees will have a delegate in Congress. What about the Navajos, Hopi, Blackfeet, Mohegan, Pequots, Hawaiians, the Seminoles and other of our recognized nations? Should they have a delegate?
In Oklahoma, the affected tribes and state are wrestling with how to arrange civil governance and both civil and criminal law. This affects a patchwork of lands and people in the eastern third of the state. The wrestling is largely complete.
Please list other treaties between sovereigns that you believe should be unilaterally violated by the US government.
it was not a foregone conclusion that all members of these sovereign nations would someday become US citizens. At the time these treaties were signed, Indians were not permitted to vote for federal or state office holders because they were not US citizens. Today as citizens they fully participate in selecting our government officials. No person should have double representation in congress.
These are the Cherokee from northeast OK. The tend to be very conservative. When they settled in the 1830s they were probably more Christianized than their white counterparts.The mother of evangelist Oral Roberts was an Oklahoma Cherokee.
That’s funny... Roll out the Buffalo Carpet... 👍
He represented Colorado, not the Cheyenne.
That’s true
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