Still Waiting: Cherokee Freedman Say They're Not Going Anywhere

With the re-election of Principal Chief Bill John Baker, the controversy of whether the Cherokee Freedmen will maintain their status as citizens within the Cherokee Nation has come back to the fore. Their quest to remain citizens according to the 1866 treaty between the Cherokee Nation and the United States remains stuck in U.S. District Federal Court.

Marilyn Vann, a Cherokee Freedmen and president of the Descendants of the Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes, and plaintiff in the case against the Cherokee Nation, says, “We Freedmen people oppose any leaders that are opposed to our citizenship, or any history that writes us out, or falsely accuses us as being non-Indians, or that we were forced upon the tribe. We are Cherokees.”

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