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[birdwatcher]

The 250,000-member Cherokee Nation will vote in a special election today whether to override a 141-year-old treaty and change the tribal constitution to bar "freedmen," the descendants of former tribal slaves, from being members of the sovereign nation.

Историческая справка: Cherokees, along with Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks and Seminoles, were long known as the "Five Civilized Tribes" because they adopted many of the ways of their white neighbors in the South, including the holding of black slaves.

The tribe fought for the Confederacy. In defeat, it signed a federal treaty in 1866 committing that its slaves, who had been freed by tribal decree during the war, would be absorbed as citizens of the Cherokee Nation.

Вот из этого-то договора они теперь в одностороннем порядке выходят.

Advocates of expelling the freedmen call it a matter of safeguarding tribal resources, which include a $350 million annual budget from federal and tribal revenue, and Cherokees' share of a gambling industry that, for U.S. tribes overall, takes in $22 billion a year.

Comments

[tacente.livejournal.com]

Это сильно.

[dezhnyuk.livejournal.com]

В наших краях их много.

[bbb.livejournal.com]

уже проголосовали:

With all 32 precincts reporting, 76.6 percent had voted in favor of an amendment to the tribal constitution that would limit citizenship to descendants of "by blood" tribe members as listed on the federal Dawes Commission's rolls from more than 100 years ago.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/03/AR2007030300750.html

[birdwatcher.livejournal.com]

Вот это тоже очень правильно: Court challenges by freedmen descendants seeking to stop the election were denied, but a federal judge left open the possibility that the case could be refiled if Cherokees voted to lift their membership rights. Зачем раньше времени отменять выборы: может, не понадобилось бы.

[emma-loy.livejournal.com]

божественно