Planet Money Podcast - The Experiment

Planet money summer school has got you every wednesday till labor day on the planet money podcast from npr.com. All summer we're tackling the big questions, inflation, unemployment, recessions. This is the experiment. I'm tracy hunt. And we're back with the story of the cherokee freedmen fighting for citizenship in theCherokee nation. What is it about becoming full citizens of the tribe that you think is so important to freedmen? It's a sense of justice. Like im owed this because my ancestors went through this some it's this is like literally something legally that you are supposed to be abiding by. We're asking for our basic rights to be