Comments on: HR 2824 Seeks To Punish The Cherokee Nation

By: midi

midi — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:31:02 +0000

I just read the full text of the bill and according to the bill, blacks who were Cherokee slaves, married to Cherokees, part Cherokee etc. were by treaty to be considered a part of the Cherokee, Choctaw etc nations that had moved to Oklahoma. Those blacks were known after that as black Cherokees. They were to be given representative and full rights with other Cherokees in the Cherokee nation. The non black Cherokees in the past couple of years decided to forbid Black Cherokees to vote, to have representation or to participate in government. The Cherokee nation in in treaty with the U.S. to give black Cherokees full participation and to have the US government approve the elected official under the Chiefs Act. The Cherokee nation is violating its treaty for the purpose of racism against its black members. I think HR2824 is an appropriate response to the racist actions of the Cherokees. Read the entire text of the bill yourself so you can see what’s really happening on this. The Cherokees want a sympathetic relationship with the U.S. base on their Cherokee race, yet they themselves would do no such thing to their own members. How ironic.

By: Robin Smith

Robin Smith — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:02:43 +0000

I am a Cherokee Nation citizen and have been working hard advocating for the many citizens that live in extreme poverity in the Nation. By extreme poverty I mean houses with dirt floors and no running water. CNO brings in millions upon millions from casino revenue and recieves approx. 300 million from the fedral government and we still have people living in third world conditions. Federal funds are not being used to help the poorest of the poor and it needs to stop. The Freedmen were given citizenship through the 1866 treaty. Our Cherokee Nation supreme court ruled in favor of the Freedmen. Less than 3% voted to illegally disenroll the Freedmen. The Cherokee Nation has long been a tribe who excepted non bloods into their tribe for over 200 years. Look at Nancy Ward she married a white man. These people were given Cherokee names and treated like excepted members of the tribe. They were never about blood quantum. It is not congress that is doing my Nation wrong it is the Leaders of the Nation doing wrong to thier own people, which makes it 100 times worse! By the way, I have actually seen all this poverty with my own eyes, I traveled in rural areas through washed out gravel roads and met Elders who got their drinking water from creeks and had outside bathrooms. It is really sad.

By: webduck

webduck — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:41:52 +0000

As I was watching the weather channel this week while we were in sunny southern CA they were announcing how cold it was in Montana. Imagine how cold it is when you live in poverty forced on you like the Indians, and your residence doesn’t have even an adequate heat source. Worrying about someone growing hemp is just ludicrous when they should be more concerned with their well-being.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:07:57 +0000

We saw a show on PBS in the P.O.V. series on Alex White Plume an Indian hemp farmer in South Dakota. I hate linking but this show aired back in July, here is the PBS link http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2007/standing/. If you get a chance it is a really good show. They were going broke and started farming hemp for clothing and other things, then they started getting raided by the FBI because the government considers hemp to fall in with marijuana. We come in and take all of their land and then harass them.

By: webduck

webduck — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 06:03:39 +0000

That’s all it comes down to Skeet, greed. Most of the woes of the world seem to revolve around it. That and power. I was thinking of your Hawaiian neighbors too when I was writing the post. We act shamefully to our own indigenous people and then try to condemn other nations. What a bunch of pucky.