Freedmen vs Cherokee Nation

She also cites a Court of Claims case dated 1895, Whitmire, Trustee for the Cherokee Freedmen vs Cherokee Nation, 30 CT CL. 138, 180 (CT Cl. 1895) which again is an old case that stated the Freedmen were entitled to share the tribe's land sale proceeds and the Cherokee Nation sovereignty could not be exercised in a manner that breached this treaty obligation. However, this Whitmire case which is a court of claims case, did in fact limit Freedmen rights under the 1866 Treaty. Again she cites a 1906 Supreme Court cases noting the Freedmen were citizens of the Cherokee Nation and entitled to the same property rights as other Cherokee Nation members under the 1866 Treaty (Red Bird vs United States, 203 U.S. 76, 84) And finally the December 19, 2006 ruling in Vann v Kempthorne which found there was a Cherokee by Blood Dawes Roll and a Freedmen Dawes Roll. She then goes into how the Cherokee Nation voted on and passed a constitutional amendment removing federal approval of it's Const...