Cherokee Nation To Vote on Expelling Slaves' Descendants
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VINITA, Okla. -- J.D. Baldridge, 73, has official government documents showing him to be a descendant of a full-blood Cherokee. He has memories of a youth spent among Cherokee neighbors and kin, at tribal stomp dances and hog fries. He holds on to a fair amount of Cherokee vocabulary. " Salali ,"...
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Yemenis voted on Wednesday in elections   that long-serving President Ali Abdullah Saleh is expected to   win despite a challenge from a former minister.
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Abkhazians are taking their democratic rights seriously as they vote to replace the man who led their fight for independence from Georgia.
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Native Hawaiians should regain some of the self-governance powers lost when the islands' queen was overthrown more than a century ago, the House decided Wednesday.
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An Islamic civil rights group Wednesday called on President Bush to rescind the appointment of a board member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum who criticized an incoming congressman, Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress.
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JERUSALEM -- The Israeli Knesset appeared set today to approve a historic withdrawal of Jewish settlers from the occupied territories following an emotional appeal yesterday by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and a major strike against Palestinian militants in the southern Gaza Strip.
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The Alabama Legislature passed a resolution Thursday that expresses "profound regret" for the state's role in slavery and apologizes for slavery's wrongs and lingering effects on the United States.
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Making it easier to deport immigrants seeking political asylum will get a vote in the House this week, a few days after a federal commission said that many of them already are being treated like criminals.
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Leaders of the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia said Monday they would hold a referendum on independence in November &#151; a move likely to infuriate the government in Tbilisi and stoke already spiraling tensions.
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A Confederate heritage group plans to challenge the NCAA's ban on championship events in South Carolina as long as the Confederate flag flies on the grounds of the state capitol.
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US civil rights groups expressed concern over alleged intimidation of Hispanic voters and said they will work to ensure their ballots are counted in the November 2 presidential election.
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Black Cherokee Indians said on Tuesday they will challenge a weekend vote to kick them out of the tribe that once owned their ancestors as slaves.
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The House of Representatives, prodded by Republicans, voted on Tuesday to possibly consider expelling indicted Democratic Rep. William Jefferson of Louisiana before he even stands trial.
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Hawaii politicians are scrambling to gather enough votes in Congress to pass a bill that would grant Native Hawaiians a degree of self-government and possibly a share of the land ruled by their ancestors.
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By Tom Wilemon, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 3--PASCAGOULA -- With their constituents wanting to know when they will get to vote on the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians' proposed casino, some Jackson County supervisors are wondering whether they can even hold an election.
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RICHMOND, Feb. 2 -- The House of Delegates unanimously approved a resolution Friday expressing "profound regret" for Virginia's role in the slave trade, a significant act of contrition by a body that used to start the day with a salute that symbolized the state's Confederate heritage.
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About 740,000 Afghans who fled violence and repression at home are expected to vote in Saturday's election.