Black Indians - Even Though Denied by Cherokee Family

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"Cherokee Nation court terminates freedmen citizenship


By Tulsa News - LENZY KREHBIEL-BURTON World Correspondent 
Published: 8/23/2011  2:28 AM 
Last Modified: 8/23/2011  6:32 AM


TAHLEQUAH - The Cherokee Nation Supreme Court reversed and vacated a district court decision in the freedmen case Monday, immediately terminating the tribal citizenship of about 2,800 non-Indians. 


Issued at 5 p.m. Monday, the 4-1 ruling states that because a 2007 referendum that amended the Cherokee constitution to exclude freedmen descendants from tribal citizenship was conducted in compliance with the tribe's laws, the court does not have the authority to overturn its results."


Cherokee Nation does not like Black folks?  I don't think so.  It's probably about greed over the gambling money and who those in charge have to share with. In the end of the era of greed, I understand, and disagree.  They can deny that most African Americans have some Native American blood, but the truth cannot.

From the dynamic history book by Dr. Leroy Vaughn, MD, MBA, Historian, Humanitarian and Honorary African Chief, BLACK PEOPLE AND THEIR PLACE IN WORLD HISTORY, Chapter After 1492, Sub chapter

BLACK INDIANS

Black Indians, like other African Americans, have been treated by the writers of history as invisible. Two parallel institutions joined to create Black Indians: the seizure and mistreatment of Indians and their lands, and the enslavement of Africans. Today just about every African American family tree has an Indian branch. Europeans forcefully entered the African blood stream, but native Americans and Africans merged by choice, invitation and love. The two people discovered that they shared many vital views such as the importance of the family with children and the elderly being treasured. Africans and Native Americans both cherished there own trustworthiness and saw promises and treaties as bonds never to be broken. Religion was a daily part of cultural life, not merely practiced on Sundays. Both Africans and Native Americans found they shared a belief in economic cooperation rather than competition and rivalry. Indians taught Africans techniques in fishing and hunting, and Africans taught Indians techniques in tropical agriculture and working in agricultural labor groups. Further, Africans had a virtual immunity to European diseases such as small pox which wiped out large communities of Native Americans.
The first recorded alliance in early America occurred on Christmas Day, 1522, when African and Indian slaves on a plantation owned by Christopher Columbus's son, rebelled and murdered their White masters. These Indian and African slaves escaped into the woods together and were never recaptured. Another successful alliance occurred around 1600 when runaway slaves and friendly Indians formed the Republic of Palmares in northeastern Brazil, which successfully fought the Dutch and Portuguese for almost one hundred years. The Republic of Palmares grew to have one half mile long streets that were six feet wide and lined with hundreds of homes, churches, and shops. Its well-kept lands produced cereals and crops irrigated by African style streams. The Republic was ruled by a king named "Ganga-Zumba" which combined the African word for great with the Indian word for ruler.
The history of the Saramaka people of Surinam in South Americastarted around 1685, when African and Native American slaves escaped and together formed a maroon society which fought with the Dutch for 80 years, until the Europeans abandoned their wars and sued for peace. Today the Saramakans total 20,000 people of mixed African-Indian ancestry.
By 1650, Mexico had a mixed African-Indian population of 100,000. Race mixing became so common in Mexico that the Spanish government passed laws prohibiting the two races from living together or marrying. In 1810, Vincente Guerrero of mixed African-Indian ancestry led the war for independence. In 1829, he became president of Mexico and immediately abolished slavery and the death sentence. He also began far reaching reforms including the construction of schools and libraries for the poor.
Escaped slaves became Spanish Florida's first settlers. They joined refugees from the Creek Nation and called themselves Seminoles, which means runaways. Intermixing became so common that they were soon called Black Seminoles. Africans taught the Indians rice cultivation and how to survive in the tropical terrain of Florida. Eventually the Black Seminoles had well-built homes and raised fine crops of corn, sweet potatoes, and vegetables. They even owned large herds of live stock. The Black Seminoles struck frequently against slave plantations and runaway slaves swelled their ranks. The U.S.government launched three massive war campaigns against the Seminole nation over a period of 40 years. The second war alone cost the U.S. government over $40 million and 1,500 soldiers. The Seminoles eventually signed a peace treaty with President Polk, which was violated in 1849, when the U.S. Attorney General ruled that Black Seminoles were still slaves under U.S. law.
Black Indian societies were so common in every east coast state that by 1812, state legislatures began to remove the tax exemption status of Indian land by claiming that the tribes were no longer Indian. A Moravian missionary visited the Nanticoke nation on Maryland's eastern shore to compile a vocabulary of their language and found they were speaking pure African Mandingo.
After the Civil War, very few Blacks ever left their Indian nation because this was the only society that could guarantee that they would never be brutalized nor lynched. If Europeans had followed the wonderfully unique model of harmony, honesty, friendship, and loyalty exhibited by the African and Indian populations in North and South America, the "new world" could truly have been the land of the free, the home of the brave, and a place where "all men are created equal."

BLACK PEOPLE AND THEIR PLACE IN WORLD HISTORY

by DR. LEROY VAUGHN, MD, MBA, HISTORIAN
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