==In all 32 districts, 76.6 percent of the members who took part 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 Dawes Commission's rolls from more than 100 years ago.==
Наверняка ведь, пилят денежки из бюджета? Или зона, свободная от налогов. В общем, льготы делят.
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=="Don't get taken advantage of by these people. They will suck you dry," Darren Buzzard, an advocate of expelling the freedmen, wrote last summer in a widely circulated e-mail denounced by freedmen. "Don't let black freedmen back you into a corner. PROTECT CHEROKEE CULTURE FOR OUR CHILDREN. FOR OUR DAUGHTER[S] . . . FIGHT AGAINST THE INFILTRATION."==
Про чероки и их freedmen'ов.