Fucking Cherokees

[Mupepe]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6416735.stm

Members of the Cherokee Nation of native Americans have voted to revoke tribal citizenship for descendants of black slaves the Cherokees once owned.

A total of 76.6% voted to amend the tribal constitution to limit citizenship to "blood" tribe members.

Supporters said only the Cherokees had the right to determine tribal members.

Opponents said the amendment was racist and aimed at preventing those with African-American heritage from gaining tribal revenue and government funding.

The Cherokee Nation has 250,000 to 270,000 members, second only to the Navajo.

'Right to vote'

The list of descendants stems from the Dawes Commission, established by Congress more than 100 years ago.

It created two lists - one of "blood" Cherokees and one of black freedmen.

Principal Chief Chad Smith said about 8,700 people had voted - more than the turnout for the Cherokee constitution vote of four years ago.

He said: "The Cherokee people exercised the most basic democratic right, the right to vote.

"Their voice is clear as to who should be citizens of the Cherokee Nation. No-one else has the right to make that determination."

But opponents of the amendment levelled accusations of discrimination.

Tribal council member Taylor Keen said: "This is a sad chapter in Cherokee history... this is not my Cherokee Nation. My Cherokee Nation is one that honours all parts of her past."

Saturday's vote followed a ruling by the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court last year securing tribal citizenship for descendants of freedmen.

Members can obtain government benefits and tribal services including housing and medical support.

Slaves were held by a number of native American tribes and were freed after the Civil War in 1866. 

Another reason why no one in my family has ever associated themselves with our Cherokee history. 

[Van Cruncheon]

i thought we'd be bitching about those giant, leaky, butt-ugly suvs in this thread

[bagofeyes]

I think I have some cherokee in me too

[Mupepe]

yeah, the suv is ugly.

But I can't stand the Cherokee Nation.  My grandmother, who is 3/4 Cherokee won't even associate herself with them.  They're such whiny, lazy, little fucks.  What I hate even more is seeing these people with 1/16 Cherokee in them in the nation and then making speeches and rants about what has been done to "their people".  Oh, and let's not forget the bullshit that they pull in the areas around their reservation.  In Morristown, TN a few years back, a Cherokee got drunk and left the reservation, plowed into a car, killed a little girl and her father and put another little girl in a coma.  He couldn't be charged because it was committed off the reservation.  He was found not guilty by the Cherokee Nation and had a small reprimand.  FUCKING FUCK THEM