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6 Mar 2007, 10:48 pm
The Cherokee Nation admits that there are many individuals living in Oklahoma who are Cherokee but who are not citizens of the Cherokee Nation because they can prove no Dawes ancestry. [read post]
15 Oct 2018, 3:30 pm by Tom Smith
Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong. [read post]
15 Dec 2015, 11:50 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
PDF The abstract: This Article addresses the Cherokee Nation and its historic conflict with the descendants of its former black slaves, designated Cherokee Freedmen. [read post]
16 Jan 2015, 12:07 pm
Janelle Fullbright, deputy speaker of the of the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council, sponsored a resolution that was passed Tuesday “opposing the establishment of an energy line route by the Plains & Eastern Clean Line in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma located within the Cherokee Nation jurisdictional area. [read post]
18 Nov 2020, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
She built a home on her ancestral land and went to work for the Cherokee Nation government. [read post]
11 Mar 2021, 10:27 am by Kate Fort
State of Oklahoma Briefs: Hogner Brief State Brief Hogner Supplemental Brief State Supplemental Brief Cherokee Nation Amicus Brief [read post]
5 Jul 2016, 2:26 pm by Kate Fort
EBC_VAWA_SaveTheDate August 24-26, 2016 Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation Cherokee, North Carolina The BIA Office of Justice Services and the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation present a free training for tribal judges, prosecutors, public defenders and tribal leaders in trial advocacy skills and the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Special Domestic Violence Jurisdiction over Non-Indians. [read post]
20 Sep 2007, 8:50 pm
But since that time, the Cherokee Nation has had its own child support enforcement program. [read post]
9 Sep 2019, 8:23 am by Dawn Allen
Kimberly Teehee, former Senior Policy Advisor for Native American Affairs, goes to Washington (again), this time as the Cherokee Nation's first delegate to Congress. [read post]
15 Jan 2014, 8:24 am by Kate Fort
The tribal resolution, which passed unanimously, states: “In any adoptive placement of a Cherokee child under state law, a preference shall be given, in the absence of good cause to the contrary, to a placement with a biological parent or parents; a member of the child’s extended family; other members of the Cherokee Nation; or other Indian families. [read post]
15 Jan 2014, 8:24 am by Kate Fort
The tribal resolution, which passed unanimously, states: “In any adoptive placement of a Cherokee child under state law, a preference shall be given, in the absence of good cause to the contrary, to a placement with a biological parent or parents; a member of the child’s extended family; other members of the Cherokee Nation; or other Indian families. [read post]
22 Jan 2014, 10:16 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Here is the opinion: Cherokee Nation v Acting Eastern Oklahoma Regional Director BIA News coverage here. [read post]
16 Oct 2014, 1:00 pm by Karen Tani
This article specifically addresses how historic discussions of black, red and white skin colors, designating the African-ancestored, aboriginal (Native American) and European-ancestored people of the United States, have helped to shape the contours of color-based national belonging among the Cherokee. [read post]
29 Jan 2013, 5:05 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Here: 2013-01-28 Appellee Cherokee Nation Petition for Rehearing (without attachments) Panel materials here. [read post]
2 Sep 2014, 8:42 am by Kate Fort
Abstract: Despite a treaty in 1866 between the Cherokee Nation and the federal government granting them full tribal citizenship, Cherokee Freedmen—the descendants of African American slaves to the Cherokee, as well as of children born from unions between African Americans and Cherokee tribal members—continue to be one of the most marginalized communities within Indian Country. [read post]