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H.R. 2824, To sever United States' government relations with the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma until such time as the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma restores full tribal citizenship to the Cherokee Freedmen disenfranchised in the March 3, 2007, Cherokee Nation vote and fulfills all its treaty obligations with the Government of the United States, and for other purposes (3 comments ↓)
H.R. 2824 would sever United States' government relations with the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma until such time as the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma restores full tribal citizenship to the Cherokee Freedmen disenfranchised in the March 3, 2007, Cherokee Nation vote and fulfills all its treaty obligations with the Government of the United States.
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FACTS
What you need to understand about this bill 1) There are no Cherokee Freedmen, only descendants of Freedmen and this is about slave reparations, 2) The Cherokee Nation never held slaves as a government, only 2% of its individual members did, so why punish the entire tribe? 3) The Cherokee Freedmen already received reparations from the Cherokee Nation in 1906, in the form of thousands of acres of tribal land and monies. The U.S. and individual slaveholding states have never provided a dime of reparations--why should an Indian tribe be forced to pay twice?
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4) The Cherokee Nation has thousands of citizens who are both African American and Cherokee, the March 3, 2007 tribal vote was obviously not about race, but this bill is falsely based on that premise.
5) Since taking up this cause, Diane Watson has begun claiming to be a freedman descendant and a descedant of Pocohantas. Which is it Diane? When asked at a press conference what tribe she's from, Watson had no idea.
6) Watson's district is in California. The Cherokee Nation is in Oklahoma. Ask yourself what a Calif Congresswoman is doing wasting her constituents' money on this issue, when it does not involve any of them?
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7) Each of the 560+ Indian nations in the U.S. holds the sacred right to determine their own citizenship laws, just as the U.S. does. Broken down into the simplest terms, if Congress passes this absurd law it will be the equivilant of Mexico telling the U.S. what its citizenship laws should be.