From the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma Website, from where Smiths version of Logic and Justification for the atrocities against a class of Cherokee people is found along with others items, following is a response to another Item from the page website of the "Cherokee Nation Of Oklahoma" (CNO) on the right side of the page it says "Questions about the Citizenship Status of Non-Indians?" click the press kit link right under that then THIS LINK for another item of misinformation and lies!
First let me explain the Acronym (CNOT) That I like to use, in that it depicts the slime i perceive the corruption the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma (CNO) perpetraits upon we Cherokee and the world, so it is not confused with a real word (snot). Some of we Cherokee believe the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma is a BOGUS entity, as I have put forth in other articles, and in my Bio as well, and it is so, by the fact of our supposed leaders of CNO continuely act in a TRAITORUS fashion against it'/their own people as in the days of old BY THE TREATY PARTY: Therefore Traitor is added to the name for the Acronym, CNOT.
The piece on the CNOT Site says, "On March 3, the citizens of the Cherokee Nation voted for the third time in the past 30 years on the citizenship clause of our Constitution. This time, the Cherokee people turned out in record numbers and voted overwhelmingly to exclude non-Indian members who had only enrolled in the Cherokee Nation within the past year. The Cherokee people voted to be just like almost every other Indian tribe in the country: an Indian government made up of Indian citizens."
Given all the documentationa and other materials available, much I have posted in other articles I must say the piece begins with Blatant outright LIES, if not at a minimum, a complete misrepresentation of facts...
First off, if there are any Cherokee Nation Citizens left alive they are at least 102 years old, Congress of the U.S. after the completion of the Dawes rolls enumeration of the Cherokee People in 1906, closed the Rolls of the Cherokee forever and it has not been reopened to date, we are simply descendants of Cherokee Citizens of the era...
Now the Cherokee People classed as members of CNOT who smith claim in overwhelming numbers voted to partake of "aparthied" number about 300,000, the vote for and against was about 8,000, thus the percentage of the CNOT members that voted was 2.66 percent, of the Cherokee members of CNOT, and that percent that actually voted for the kick out really was 75% of those that voted, that was about 6,000 so the 75% that voted equates to 2% of the CNO Members that voted to kick out the freedmen, so the truth of the blatant lie is, that Racism is practiced by a very few Cherokee People, and it is a fact many will tell you today, after learning the facts of the matter they wish they had voted the other way. And Yes many Cherokee would dearly love to See a Cherokee Government made up of Cherokee people that portray true Cherokee thoughts and ways, number one being consideration for the needy Elders and Children, and without any regard to skin color!
The Article continues on with more misinformation and some absolute outright lies! "The history of non-Indians with the Cherokee Nation dates back a long time, and any discussion of the latest citizenship vote should include the basics of Cherokee history. Cherokee Nation citizens must prove that they had an ancestor on the Final Rolls of the Cherokee Nation in 1906, which included categories for Cherokee, Delaware and Shawnee Indians, as well as white citizens and freedmen. ''freedmen'' is a federal, legal term used to describe descendants of former slaves and freed African-Americans associated with the Cherokee Nation prior to statehood. In 1906, when there was an effort to liquidate the Cherokee Nation, the freedmen, unlike former slaves in the Deep South, received allotments - cash payments from the Cherokee Nation".
The Paragraph just above for the most part is fairly accurate... Historical facts show the Cherokee adopted other folks in to the tribe by the Clan System prior to the coming of the Whiteman. and this system only ended when the Cherokee Nation took on a centralized constutitional persona in 1827 with the passage of the first Constitution and the election of the first Chief, that served to his death in 1866, and that is as close as the paragraph comes to anything truthful or containing any factual information...
In 1906 there was a congressional act that actually extend the life of the Cherokee nation and the other 4 of the FCT...There was NO attempted liquidation of the Cherokee per se, the simple fact they were included in the action of the Curtis Act of 1898, that abolished the Oklahoma Tribal Governments by striping them of their judicial systems on July 1, 1898.
And the twisting of fact and outright blatant lying by CNOT is idicitive of what they are, and are capable of. Any Cash Receipts by the Freedmen were no different than any recieved by each and every citizen of the Cherokee Nation, of the era and even as late as the mids 1960's when my father recieve a payment of, if I remeber correctly of $167.00 his percap portion of the land settlement of the sale of Cherokee land called the Cherokee Strip, bordering Kansas, and yes the Freedmen descendants have recieved cash payments over the years, as Cherokee descendants of Cherokee Citizens, NO Different than any other Cherokee , NOT as a payment of reparation, nor was their alottement deemed as such as CNOT wants the world to believe, the land alotment for Freedmen was exactly the same as any Cherokee, the only difference was determined by which section of the Dawes Rolls they were on for the sole purpose of having Trust Restrictions removed of left off their land alotment, again these land alotments were NOT payments of reparations as CNOT would have you believe, Simply a right as a Cherokee as ALL Cherokee's entitlement...
The point I make is the Freedmen Decendants recieved this payment as well in 1960...Earlier they did have to fight for this right in Court, and several times proved they are Citizens an eligible to all rights, same as any other Cherokee and won the case in every instance, as I have pointed out in other articles... My Son David have explained this so many times, CNOT leaders should be getting it one of these days.
The Article goes into an attempt of declaring the 1975 Constitution is a legal Document, because it was approve by vote of some Cherokee people, WHO and HOW turns out to be the question!
"In 1975, the Cherokee Constitution, approved by Cherokees by a 6 - 1 margin, provided that citizenship include only Cherokees, Shawnees and Delawares."
Absolute pure BS folks, first off simply read the 1975 Supposed Constitution and see Article III Section 1, no where there does it say such a thing, Smith implies, because the Freedmen are not mentioned they are not considered Cherokee, several documnents I have linked in other aricles such as the 1866 Treaty, the amended 1839 Constitution of the Cherokee, and the 1880 Cherokee Census, and Several Court rulings quite plainly say they are Cherokee, including the CNO Supreme court Ruling of March 2007; Therefore the Freedmen descendants are just like the rest of we descendants of the Cherokee citizens of the Dawes Rolls, we ALL meet the requirement of the CNOT Document linked above, to be Cherokee Members of CNOT! Once again CNO/Smith must think the Cherokee People, and readers of the world are Stupid!
It is said there is verifiable evidence that the ratification process may have been tainted by fraud. unnamed sources intimately connected with the 1976 ratification process have alleged that Ross O. Swimmer had constitutional ballots mailed only to those voters be expected to vote in favor of the adoption. Other sources insist that no authentic expression of popular will was even possible during the ratification process, three different versions of the proposed constitution were then in circulation, making it impossible for Cherokee voters to know which document was actually up for ratification. In addition, the members of the Cherokee Nation Registration Committee who actually counted the constitutional ballots had no way of confirming whether the envelopes with which they were presented were authentic as they were not allowed to oversee mailing and collection process.
And there has never been a vote on Citizenship as Smith claims untill this last time when he had on the ballot the BOGUS bill to kick out the Freedmen.
Sure the document called a Constitution in 1975, was ratified, but there was most certainly questions raised as to the legalities of the vote, as well as what I mentioned in the earlier article on the illegalities of his election where i said: "Ross O. Swimmer was able to win the 1975 election for Principal Chief, with 8120 Cherokees voting with Ross O. Swimmer recieved around 1868 votes, which meant 6,252 Cherokees voted against him and yet he still won. At the time there were no laws written for the election process of CNOT that provided for a run-off if a majority vote was not reached, which Swimmer did not, he barely gor 20 percent of the vote, but it was the most, and he won, the rigging is most likely so, but not sustanciated.
BUT, the fact has to be, only by having fraudulent absentees ballots from California, resulting in the possibility that Ross O. Swimmer may have rigged the 1976 ratification vote, cannot be dismissed out of hand either. According to Georgia Rae Leeds, in her doctorial dissertation for the University of Oklahoma History Department, an eye-witness reported to her that "Ross O. Swimmer and one of his supporters formulated plans to illegally rig the absentee votes by hand-carrying a large number of ballots California and mailing them from there." If Swimmer did, in fact, rig his own election, as sources say, then supposed malfeasance must suggest a pattern of deceptive behavior that could have easily led him to rig the ratification election process of the Document called a Constitution as well."
The Article continues with the outright mis information by CNOT, and this has to be Smith, only a deceptive decietful lawyer could concoct this pure BS.
"In 2001, the Cherokee Nation's highest court ruled that exclusion of descendants of freedmen and other non-Indians in 1975 was constitutional. "
CNOT/Smith Lies some more, actually the CNOT Court ruled against Bernice Riggs under the cover of darkness The ruling was made in 1999 only a few months after the election of Smith as Chief, and the abandonment of the case by her lawyer Kathy Carter White, for a lucrative position offered by Smith, most likely for the abandonment of the case, and Smith's appointment of Darrell Matlock to the court..
Mrs. Riggs was never notified of the ruling by her lawyer, Kathy Carter-White, neither did the CNOT court notify her either. My son David was living in Tulsa in 2001 when he was notified , at which time promptly informed Mrs. Riggs, but it was all over then with no recourse.
"Yet more lies and misinfo from the article! In 2003, the Cherokee people voted again on a new Constitution and affirmed that Cherokee citizens should be those of Cherokee, Shawnee and Delaware by blood, and to exclude descendants of freedmen and other non-Indians. However, in 2006, with new judges on the highest court, the court reversed itself and held that the 1975 and 2003 Constitution language was not clear enough to exclude descendants of freedmen and other non-Indians, and that the language for exclusion needed to be clearer."
CNO/Smith omit's a most important element in the saga of mis representation, and and twisting of words, quite simply, a little truth, true in 2003 the Cherokee People voted to ratify the 1999 version of the 1975 Constitution, and the BIA promptly notified CNOT, it would not approve the Document, and have not to this day.
In 2007, the CNOT fools got an amendment to the Constitution passed in the BOGUS election, of removing the Congressional Statute of absolute Plenary Control, presidential approval of the Cherokee constitution, elections, and election Laws, and at the same time retroactive to 2003 installed the BOGUS 1999 Revised Constitutionand if you will read Article IV Section 1, you will see the Criteria for Citizenship says exactly the Same thing as the 75...
Once again the Freedmen are not mentioned because they are Cherokee, The others are mentioned because it must be noted they are Cherokee by adoption after the 1866 Treaty signing, and if you will read the 1866 Treaty Article 15. you will see both parties knew what was coming it was made into law by agreement that friendly Indians could be settled in the Cherokee Nation, and that is what the Delaware Agreement of 1867, and Shawnee of 1869 is all about, NOT what Smith is trying to BS the world with!!
As for the Judges of the CNOT Court, they were not all new judges on the Court, ONLY Stacy Leeds was new, Remember Dowty Matlock and Viles if I remember correctly did the 99 Riggs Ruling, Stacy replace Viles, so she was the only new judge, what happen was Dowty evidently thought more of his career as a Lawyer than being a servant of the CNOT Junta, any future major rulings will determine his status for sure, so he recanted his stupid ruling in the Riggs case and Concurred with Leeds as a majority in the Allen Ruling Thus asserting the Freedmen were citizens of the Cherokee Nation before the 75 Constitution and most certainly were after its inception and are today.
And it WAS NOT a granting of Citizenship to the Freedmen as CNOT claims, it was a striking down of an unconstitutional law that allowed the judges to come with the BOGUS ruling in the Riggs case, which was the CNOT legislative Act of Mankiller's Junta in 1992 Therefore reversing the BOGUS Ruling in the Riggs case, and simply affirming the Freedmen are Cherokee.
CNOT/Smith continuing the lie and misinformation by this statement, [b]"Cherokee citizens then started a petition calling for a special election. That led to the vote on March 3, in which 77 percent of the Cherokee voted to exclude non-Indians who had only been eligible for citizenship since the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court ruling in March of 2006. Representatives of the freedmen have played the race card, screaming that the actions of the Cherokee people were based on racism. In response to such harsh and unfounded criticism, I must respond on behalf of my people. Cherokees are a warm, open, tolerant group of people. The Cherokee Nation's citizenship policy is one of the most open and inclusive in all of Indian country. Of the 270,000 Cherokee citizens, there are many who are racially black, racially white, racially Hispanic and racially Asian. However, each one shares a common bond of having a Cherokee ancestor on the base roll of 1906. Regardless of their race, they are citizens of the Cherokee Nation and are accepted and are part of the Cherokee family.
The fact is the Dawes Roll is the base roll of 1906 and if you had Indian blood, you are listed as an Indian. Jack Baker, an esteemed genealogist, provided abundant proof of that. In fact, the freedmen's own witness, professor Dan Littlefield, has stated that only a very few of those with Cherokee and freedmen blood were put on the freedman roll instead of the on the freedman roll instead of the Cherokee by blood roll. Experts on all sides of the issue agree that the non-Indianrolls of the Cherokee Nation were made up almost entirely of non-Indians. It is unfortunate that some of these non-Indians chose to play a race card and choose to play victim rather than explaining to the Cherokee people why these descendants should be citizens of the Cherokee Nation."
This complete jabber-wockey says absolutely nothing but the same lie CNOT has already gibber-jabbered many, many times so to learn the truth about who is who and what is what, simply READ THE PERTINENT LINKS in this Article heck just read the whole thing again!
Smith finishes with this babble of more lies and misinformation! "That fundamental decision is not the principal chief's, the tribal council's or even the courts'; it is the right of the Cherokee people to do so. in this election, they made that decision overwhelmingly - that to be a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, you have to have a common bond, a Cherokee, Delaware or Shawnee ancestor on the base roll. That is certainly not too much to ask. So why did the Cherokees vote in record numbers to require a common ancestor on the rolls of the Cherokee Nation by blood? We all know that there are too many Cherokees to provide with per capita payments from gaming proceeds. The vast majority of Cherokees do not use the services of health care, housing and education. It seems that many Cherokees chose to exclude non-Indians because of a sense of identity. Cherokees are Indians. They are the indigenous and aboriginal people of this land and there is a commonality of history, language, heritage and culture. It finally came to a point that non-Indians were claiming to be Cherokee when, in fact, they are not. So the vote was an affirmation of identity as Indian for those voting. Simply, the Cherokees said the Cherokee Nation is an Indian tribe made up of Indians, just like other Indian tribes all over the country. Other tribes criticize the Cherokee Nation for being too inclusive, for not having a minimum blood quantum. We see citizenship as an inherent right through blood lineage. We see ourselves as a community within other Indian tribes and nations in this country, just like the Navajos, Apaches, Nez Perce and the Choctaws, who each also require their members to be Indians.
Signed by:
Chad Smith
Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
And the final niggle is no different than the previous just a bunch of pure BS, and the counter for it all can be found at BY CLICKING HERE a response to a party that was for the funding cut then changes his mind. And some of the links in the other url is applicable as well, and/or simply going to www.cornsilks.com for all the truth on Cnot and the Smith Junta.
John Cornsilk
Cherokee CNO Member!
First let me explain the Acronym (CNOT) That I like to use, in that it depicts the slime i perceive the corruption the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma (CNO) perpetraits upon we Cherokee and the world, so it is not confused with a real word (snot). Some of we Cherokee believe the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma is a BOGUS entity, as I have put forth in other articles, and in my Bio as well, and it is so, by the fact of our supposed leaders of CNO continuely act in a TRAITORUS fashion against it'/their own people as in the days of old BY THE TREATY PARTY: Therefore Traitor is added to the name for the Acronym, CNOT.
The piece on the CNOT Site says, "On March 3, the citizens of the Cherokee Nation voted for the third time in the past 30 years on the citizenship clause of our Constitution. This time, the Cherokee people turned out in record numbers and voted overwhelmingly to exclude non-Indian members who had only enrolled in the Cherokee Nation within the past year. The Cherokee people voted to be just like almost every other Indian tribe in the country: an Indian government made up of Indian citizens."
Given all the documentationa and other materials available, much I have posted in other articles I must say the piece begins with Blatant outright LIES, if not at a minimum, a complete misrepresentation of facts...
First off, if there are any Cherokee Nation Citizens left alive they are at least 102 years old, Congress of the U.S. after the completion of the Dawes rolls enumeration of the Cherokee People in 1906, closed the Rolls of the Cherokee forever and it has not been reopened to date, we are simply descendants of Cherokee Citizens of the era...
Now the Cherokee People classed as members of CNOT who smith claim in overwhelming numbers voted to partake of "aparthied" number about 300,000, the vote for and against was about 8,000, thus the percentage of the CNOT members that voted was 2.66 percent, of the Cherokee members of CNOT, and that percent that actually voted for the kick out really was 75% of those that voted, that was about 6,000 so the 75% that voted equates to 2% of the CNO Members that voted to kick out the freedmen, so the truth of the blatant lie is, that Racism is practiced by a very few Cherokee People, and it is a fact many will tell you today, after learning the facts of the matter they wish they had voted the other way. And Yes many Cherokee would dearly love to See a Cherokee Government made up of Cherokee people that portray true Cherokee thoughts and ways, number one being consideration for the needy Elders and Children, and without any regard to skin color!
The Article continues on with more misinformation and some absolute outright lies! "The history of non-Indians with the Cherokee Nation dates back a long time, and any discussion of the latest citizenship vote should include the basics of Cherokee history. Cherokee Nation citizens must prove that they had an ancestor on the Final Rolls of the Cherokee Nation in 1906, which included categories for Cherokee, Delaware and Shawnee Indians, as well as white citizens and freedmen. ''freedmen'' is a federal, legal term used to describe descendants of former slaves and freed African-Americans associated with the Cherokee Nation prior to statehood. In 1906, when there was an effort to liquidate the Cherokee Nation, the freedmen, unlike former slaves in the Deep South, received allotments - cash payments from the Cherokee Nation".
The Paragraph just above for the most part is fairly accurate... Historical facts show the Cherokee adopted other folks in to the tribe by the Clan System prior to the coming of the Whiteman. and this system only ended when the Cherokee Nation took on a centralized constutitional persona in 1827 with the passage of the first Constitution and the election of the first Chief, that served to his death in 1866, and that is as close as the paragraph comes to anything truthful or containing any factual information...
In 1906 there was a congressional act that actually extend the life of the Cherokee nation and the other 4 of the FCT...There was NO attempted liquidation of the Cherokee per se, the simple fact they were included in the action of the Curtis Act of 1898, that abolished the Oklahoma Tribal Governments by striping them of their judicial systems on July 1, 1898.
And the twisting of fact and outright blatant lying by CNOT is idicitive of what they are, and are capable of. Any Cash Receipts by the Freedmen were no different than any recieved by each and every citizen of the Cherokee Nation, of the era and even as late as the mids 1960's when my father recieve a payment of, if I remeber correctly of $167.00 his percap portion of the land settlement of the sale of Cherokee land called the Cherokee Strip, bordering Kansas, and yes the Freedmen descendants have recieved cash payments over the years, as Cherokee descendants of Cherokee Citizens, NO Different than any other Cherokee , NOT as a payment of reparation, nor was their alottement deemed as such as CNOT wants the world to believe, the land alotment for Freedmen was exactly the same as any Cherokee, the only difference was determined by which section of the Dawes Rolls they were on for the sole purpose of having Trust Restrictions removed of left off their land alotment, again these land alotments were NOT payments of reparations as CNOT would have you believe, Simply a right as a Cherokee as ALL Cherokee's entitlement...
The point I make is the Freedmen Decendants recieved this payment as well in 1960...Earlier they did have to fight for this right in Court, and several times proved they are Citizens an eligible to all rights, same as any other Cherokee and won the case in every instance, as I have pointed out in other articles... My Son David have explained this so many times, CNOT leaders should be getting it one of these days.
The Article goes into an attempt of declaring the 1975 Constitution is a legal Document, because it was approve by vote of some Cherokee people, WHO and HOW turns out to be the question!
"In 1975, the Cherokee Constitution, approved by Cherokees by a 6 - 1 margin, provided that citizenship include only Cherokees, Shawnees and Delawares."
Absolute pure BS folks, first off simply read the 1975 Supposed Constitution and see Article III Section 1, no where there does it say such a thing, Smith implies, because the Freedmen are not mentioned they are not considered Cherokee, several documnents I have linked in other aricles such as the 1866 Treaty, the amended 1839 Constitution of the Cherokee, and the 1880 Cherokee Census, and Several Court rulings quite plainly say they are Cherokee, including the CNO Supreme court Ruling of March 2007; Therefore the Freedmen descendants are just like the rest of we descendants of the Cherokee citizens of the Dawes Rolls, we ALL meet the requirement of the CNOT Document linked above, to be Cherokee Members of CNOT! Once again CNO/Smith must think the Cherokee People, and readers of the world are Stupid!
It is said there is verifiable evidence that the ratification process may have been tainted by fraud. unnamed sources intimately connected with the 1976 ratification process have alleged that Ross O. Swimmer had constitutional ballots mailed only to those voters be expected to vote in favor of the adoption. Other sources insist that no authentic expression of popular will was even possible during the ratification process, three different versions of the proposed constitution were then in circulation, making it impossible for Cherokee voters to know which document was actually up for ratification. In addition, the members of the Cherokee Nation Registration Committee who actually counted the constitutional ballots had no way of confirming whether the envelopes with which they were presented were authentic as they were not allowed to oversee mailing and collection process.
And there has never been a vote on Citizenship as Smith claims untill this last time when he had on the ballot the BOGUS bill to kick out the Freedmen.
Sure the document called a Constitution in 1975, was ratified, but there was most certainly questions raised as to the legalities of the vote, as well as what I mentioned in the earlier article on the illegalities of his election where i said: "Ross O. Swimmer was able to win the 1975 election for Principal Chief, with 8120 Cherokees voting with Ross O. Swimmer recieved around 1868 votes, which meant 6,252 Cherokees voted against him and yet he still won. At the time there were no laws written for the election process of CNOT that provided for a run-off if a majority vote was not reached, which Swimmer did not, he barely gor 20 percent of the vote, but it was the most, and he won, the rigging is most likely so, but not sustanciated.
BUT, the fact has to be, only by having fraudulent absentees ballots from California, resulting in the possibility that Ross O. Swimmer may have rigged the 1976 ratification vote, cannot be dismissed out of hand either. According to Georgia Rae Leeds, in her doctorial dissertation for the University of Oklahoma History Department, an eye-witness reported to her that "Ross O. Swimmer and one of his supporters formulated plans to illegally rig the absentee votes by hand-carrying a large number of ballots California and mailing them from there." If Swimmer did, in fact, rig his own election, as sources say, then supposed malfeasance must suggest a pattern of deceptive behavior that could have easily led him to rig the ratification election process of the Document called a Constitution as well."
The Article continues with the outright mis information by CNOT, and this has to be Smith, only a deceptive decietful lawyer could concoct this pure BS.
"In 2001, the Cherokee Nation's highest court ruled that exclusion of descendants of freedmen and other non-Indians in 1975 was constitutional. "
CNOT/Smith Lies some more, actually the CNOT Court ruled against Bernice Riggs under the cover of darkness The ruling was made in 1999 only a few months after the election of Smith as Chief, and the abandonment of the case by her lawyer Kathy Carter White, for a lucrative position offered by Smith, most likely for the abandonment of the case, and Smith's appointment of Darrell Matlock to the court..
Mrs. Riggs was never notified of the ruling by her lawyer, Kathy Carter-White, neither did the CNOT court notify her either. My son David was living in Tulsa in 2001 when he was notified , at which time promptly informed Mrs. Riggs, but it was all over then with no recourse.
"Yet more lies and misinfo from the article! In 2003, the Cherokee people voted again on a new Constitution and affirmed that Cherokee citizens should be those of Cherokee, Shawnee and Delaware by blood, and to exclude descendants of freedmen and other non-Indians. However, in 2006, with new judges on the highest court, the court reversed itself and held that the 1975 and 2003 Constitution language was not clear enough to exclude descendants of freedmen and other non-Indians, and that the language for exclusion needed to be clearer."
CNO/Smith omit's a most important element in the saga of mis representation, and and twisting of words, quite simply, a little truth, true in 2003 the Cherokee People voted to ratify the 1999 version of the 1975 Constitution, and the BIA promptly notified CNOT, it would not approve the Document, and have not to this day.
In 2007, the CNOT fools got an amendment to the Constitution passed in the BOGUS election, of removing the Congressional Statute of absolute Plenary Control, presidential approval of the Cherokee constitution, elections, and election Laws, and at the same time retroactive to 2003 installed the BOGUS 1999 Revised Constitutionand if you will read Article IV Section 1, you will see the Criteria for Citizenship says exactly the Same thing as the 75...
Once again the Freedmen are not mentioned because they are Cherokee, The others are mentioned because it must be noted they are Cherokee by adoption after the 1866 Treaty signing, and if you will read the 1866 Treaty Article 15. you will see both parties knew what was coming it was made into law by agreement that friendly Indians could be settled in the Cherokee Nation, and that is what the Delaware Agreement of 1867, and Shawnee of 1869 is all about, NOT what Smith is trying to BS the world with!!
As for the Judges of the CNOT Court, they were not all new judges on the Court, ONLY Stacy Leeds was new, Remember Dowty Matlock and Viles if I remember correctly did the 99 Riggs Ruling, Stacy replace Viles, so she was the only new judge, what happen was Dowty evidently thought more of his career as a Lawyer than being a servant of the CNOT Junta, any future major rulings will determine his status for sure, so he recanted his stupid ruling in the Riggs case and Concurred with Leeds as a majority in the Allen Ruling Thus asserting the Freedmen were citizens of the Cherokee Nation before the 75 Constitution and most certainly were after its inception and are today.
And it WAS NOT a granting of Citizenship to the Freedmen as CNOT claims, it was a striking down of an unconstitutional law that allowed the judges to come with the BOGUS ruling in the Riggs case, which was the CNOT legislative Act of Mankiller's Junta in 1992 Therefore reversing the BOGUS Ruling in the Riggs case, and simply affirming the Freedmen are Cherokee.
CNOT/Smith continuing the lie and misinformation by this statement, [b]"Cherokee citizens then started a petition calling for a special election. That led to the vote on March 3, in which 77 percent of the Cherokee voted to exclude non-Indians who had only been eligible for citizenship since the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court ruling in March of 2006. Representatives of the freedmen have played the race card, screaming that the actions of the Cherokee people were based on racism. In response to such harsh and unfounded criticism, I must respond on behalf of my people. Cherokees are a warm, open, tolerant group of people. The Cherokee Nation's citizenship policy is one of the most open and inclusive in all of Indian country. Of the 270,000 Cherokee citizens, there are many who are racially black, racially white, racially Hispanic and racially Asian. However, each one shares a common bond of having a Cherokee ancestor on the base roll of 1906. Regardless of their race, they are citizens of the Cherokee Nation and are accepted and are part of the Cherokee family.
The fact is the Dawes Roll is the base roll of 1906 and if you had Indian blood, you are listed as an Indian. Jack Baker, an esteemed genealogist, provided abundant proof of that. In fact, the freedmen's own witness, professor Dan Littlefield, has stated that only a very few of those with Cherokee and freedmen blood were put on the freedman roll instead of the on the freedman roll instead of the Cherokee by blood roll. Experts on all sides of the issue agree that the non-Indianrolls of the Cherokee Nation were made up almost entirely of non-Indians. It is unfortunate that some of these non-Indians chose to play a race card and choose to play victim rather than explaining to the Cherokee people why these descendants should be citizens of the Cherokee Nation."
This complete jabber-wockey says absolutely nothing but the same lie CNOT has already gibber-jabbered many, many times so to learn the truth about who is who and what is what, simply READ THE PERTINENT LINKS in this Article heck just read the whole thing again!
Smith finishes with this babble of more lies and misinformation! "That fundamental decision is not the principal chief's, the tribal council's or even the courts'; it is the right of the Cherokee people to do so. in this election, they made that decision overwhelmingly - that to be a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, you have to have a common bond, a Cherokee, Delaware or Shawnee ancestor on the base roll. That is certainly not too much to ask. So why did the Cherokees vote in record numbers to require a common ancestor on the rolls of the Cherokee Nation by blood? We all know that there are too many Cherokees to provide with per capita payments from gaming proceeds. The vast majority of Cherokees do not use the services of health care, housing and education. It seems that many Cherokees chose to exclude non-Indians because of a sense of identity. Cherokees are Indians. They are the indigenous and aboriginal people of this land and there is a commonality of history, language, heritage and culture. It finally came to a point that non-Indians were claiming to be Cherokee when, in fact, they are not. So the vote was an affirmation of identity as Indian for those voting. Simply, the Cherokees said the Cherokee Nation is an Indian tribe made up of Indians, just like other Indian tribes all over the country. Other tribes criticize the Cherokee Nation for being too inclusive, for not having a minimum blood quantum. We see citizenship as an inherent right through blood lineage. We see ourselves as a community within other Indian tribes and nations in this country, just like the Navajos, Apaches, Nez Perce and the Choctaws, who each also require their members to be Indians.
Signed by:
Chad Smith
Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
And the final niggle is no different than the previous just a bunch of pure BS, and the counter for it all can be found at BY CLICKING HERE a response to a party that was for the funding cut then changes his mind. And some of the links in the other url is applicable as well, and/or simply going to www.cornsilks.com for all the truth on Cnot and the Smith Junta.
John Cornsilk
Cherokee CNO Member!
