You Can’t Be Black And Cherokee Anymore: Tribe Expels Slave
You Can’t Be Black And Cherokee Anymore: Tribe Expels Slave Descendants
In an unexpected turn of events in history the Supreme Court ruled in the favor of a 2007 tribal decision to kick Black folks out of the Cherokee tribe, reports Reuters.
The nation’s second-largest Indian tribe formally booted from membership thousands of descendants of black slaves who were brought to Oklahoma more than 170 years ago by Native American owners.