![]() Lowering the membership requirements until most Indians are white "by blood" could be the future of many tribes. ![]() That's why so many members have so little Cherokee "blood." It's a legitimate policy choice, not a conspiracy to defraud the government. I think the CN determines membership by lineal descent, not blood quantum. Is this what the Cherokees’ treaties have come down to?Comment: Some of these "perks" come the Cherokee Nation's gaming revenue, I believe, not the federal government. They get free or reduced-price houses, cheap car tags, free medical/dental/optical, free higher education, preferential Indian hiring, food commodities and other taxpayer-paid-for-perks. These CN Indians, classic double-dippers, gleefully pass as suburban whites but also get full treaty benefits. These full-bloods must traverse a sea of white Cherokees to visit the Indian clinics. Meanwhile, the Keetoowahs back in the woods-the Cherokee-speakin’, Cherokee-lookin’ actual Cherokees-are pushed aside further and further. You would not suspect a lot of them of being Indian even if they were standing in the Cherokee Casino, wearing turbans. Less than 1 percent of CN members speak the language. The average CN blood quantum is less than 1/16th, and the predominant CN ancestry is Scots-Irish, followed by German, English, and then Cherokee ancestry, in distant fourth place. UKB deserves apology Many members of the CN tribe have laughable amounts of Indian blood.
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