Freedmen vs Cherokee Nation

Descendants of Native Americans' Slaves Left Out of $3.4 Billion Settlement By RYAN ABBOTT http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/12/21/32757.htm COLUMBUS, Ohio (CN) - Descendants of slaves owned by the so-called (so called?; they were called civilized because they were farmers in the SE) Five Civilized Tribes challenged the $3.4 billion class action settlement in Elouise Cobell et al. v. Ken Salazar, in a class action of their own. The Harvest Institute Freedman Federation says the Cobell settlement was racially discriminatory, with the United States paying off descendants of treasonous (lol - treasonous? - lol - give it a rest already!) Indian slave-owners who took the South's side in the Civil War, while stiffing descendants of the Indians' slaves. The $3.4 billion settlement in Cobell v. Salazar, which will be implemented under Title I of the Claims Resolution Act of 2010, "is racially discriminatory and perpetuates past unlawful racial discrimination," the Free...

Feinstein wades into urban gaming fight By Malcolm Maclachlan 12/02/10 12:00 AM PST http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?_c=zbfozf2sq3hu5p&xid=zbf7ptghovltry&done=.zbfozf2sq45u5p Opponents of urban casinos in the Bay Area have a powerful ally in Washington: U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Feinstein, a Democrat and California’s senior senator, has proposed changes in the law that would make it harder for tribes to take new lands into trust. It’s a seemingly obscure legal designation that has serious implications for just about any tribe that would want to build an urban casino. Under Feinstein’s changes, a tribe would have to show both a “substantial direct aboriginal connection to the land” and “substantial direct modern one.” (Duh! This was all Native Lands at one time - direct aboriginal connection; and the fact they were forced from it should be a continuing trespass which would prevent applying a *direct modern connection*; in other words Natives can't have a direct ...