Who belongs in the Cherokee Nation?
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How to Become a Citizen of the Cherokee Nation
The treaty of 18 66 gave freedmen and their descendants all the rights of native cherokees. Maryland's father had been enlisted as a freedman on the dawls rolls, but he didn't have a blood quantum next to his name. The tribe treated away their right to discriminate against the freemen.
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