Freedmen vs Cherokee Nation

Tester, senators told road funding system on Indian reservations 'broken' By VINCE DEVLIN of the Missoulian missoulian.com Posted: Friday, October 15, 2010 9:15 pm http://missoulian.com/news/local/article_1ddfee76-d8d9-11df-82e1-001cc4c002e0.html POLSON - Almost three-quarters of the roads on American Indian reservations are unpaved, yet too much of the federal money meant to rectify that goes to states and urban tribes that don't need it, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester was told repeatedly Friday. Tester, a member of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, took testimony on the issue at a field hearing at KwaTaqNuk Resort - the first time a U.S. senator has convened a committee hearing on the Flathead Indian Reservation. The first of two panels to testify included some heavy hitters from Washington, D.C., including Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk, and Michael Black, the director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. But it was the second panel, of Monta

Cherokee Nation drops DOI and Salazar from Freedmen suit By WILL CHAVEZ Senior Reporter http://www.cherokeephoenix.org/25306/Article.aspx TAHLEQUAH, Okla. – The Cherokee Nation on Oct. 6 dropped the Department of Interior and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar as defendants from its federal lawsuit against five Cherokee Freedmen. The lawsuit was filed Feb. 2, 2009, in the Northern District of Oklahoma. It sought declaratory judgment regarding the citizenship of Cherokee Freedmen under an 1866 Treaty between the CN and federal government. Salazar, the DOI and the five Freedmen in the case moved to transfer the case to the District Court for the District of Columbia where a similar case (Vann et al v. Salazar) has been since 2003. On July 2, 2010, U.S. District Judge Terence C. Kern for the Northern District of Oklahoma said the case should be transferred to the District of Columbia court because the plaintiffs and defendants in both cases were substantially similar and “involve a single cor

(I've never seen any drunken debaucery going on here???) The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa owned and operated by the Cherokee Nation is not a party to the lawsuit. Lawsuit cites local casino Improper use of Hard Rock logo is alleged A logo hangs from the exterior of the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Alleged "drunken debauchery" at the Las Vegas site may have sparked the Hard Rock logo-use lawsuit. Associated Press file By ROBERT EVATT World Staff Writer Published: 9/24/2010 2:22 AM Last Modified: 9/24/2010 4:54 AM http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/article.aspx?subjectid=46&articleid=20100924_46_E1_CUTLIN25032 The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa is being cited by Hard Rock Cafe International for alleged improper use of the Hard Rock logos - part of a lawsuit that complains about "drunken debauchery" at the Hard Rock location in Las Vegas. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in New York, alleges that defendants Morgans Hotel

Alleged misconduct puts IHS officials in hot seat Senate panel grills leaders on Aberdeen office's problems LEDYARD KING • Argus Leader Washington Bureau • September 29, 2010 http://www.argusleader.com/article/20100929/NEWS/9290319/1001 WASHINGTON - Senators lambasted Indian Health Service officials Tuesday after investigators found that some workers in the federal agency had criminal records, stole drugs and embezzled money - all while patients endured long lines for medical services or were turned away. Government inspectors have opened almost 300 investigations into IHS during the past decade for alleged violations including fraud, theft and employee misconduct, according to the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. At the same time, IHS supervisors often put disciplined employees on paid administrative leave, allowing them to stay at home and collect their salary for months. Tuesday's hearing by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee focused on

Want to know more about Indian Country Today.... http://www.richheape.com/ The real tragedy as well for Indian Health Care is: it was lumped in with the Obama Health Care Bill....that should never have happened...the bases for providing health care to Native America comes from a totally different source than any *public health care system* that has been passed; it is in a separate category all it's own and as such should have been passed separately.

Seek truth about Cherokee Story Published: Oct 1, 2010 Story Updated: Oct 1, 2010 http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/opinion/letters/Seek-truth-about-Cherokee-104155283.html The Cherokee Nation does not question anyone’s claim of heritage or ancestry, but merely points out the significant difference between claiming heritage and having citizenship in a federally recognized Indian tribe. Fraudulent groups and individuals passing themselves off as Native American have become big business over the past two decades, with more than 200 groups that claim to be some sort of Cherokee tribe. There are also hundreds of individuals who claim to be Cherokee or from the Cherokee Nation and offer services that range from teaching culture to spiritual advice. However, there are only three federally recognized Cherokee tribes – the Cherokee Nation and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians both located in Oklahoma and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians located in North Carolina. The Cherokee N