Tribe votes on freed slaves' membership
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Cherokee Nation citizenship was at stake Saturday in an election to determine whether descendants of people the Cherokee once owned as slaves should be counted as members of the tribe.
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Uganda's government separates those fleeing from its neighbor by tribe in order to keep down simmering tensions
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Four California tribes won the right Tuesday to add thousands of slot machines, as voters approved a major expansion of Indian gambling that prompted one of the state's costliest election battles.
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The Seminole Tribe of Florida flexes its financial muscles.
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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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LIVINGSTON, Guatemala  - Coming from as far away  as New York, hundreds of people celebrated the Black Carib  Garifuna culture in this tiny Guatemalan port town on Friday,  dancing in an annual tribute to the courage of escaped slaves.
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Democratic presidential  hopeful Barack Obama said on Friday the United States has a  "special obligation" to help American Indians and pledged to  hold annual summits with tribal leaders if he is elected in  November.
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Does it have the right to deny a group of blacks citizenship in the tribe? The question is headed for Congress
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A new bill in Mauritania to send slave owners to jail is too weak and won't stop the practice, says a lobby group.
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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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American descendants of African slaves should be exempted from US federal taxes for a generation or two to compensate them for the state-sanctioned exploitation of their ancestors, an aspiring US Senate hopeful declared.
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Chad Smith was elected to a third term as chief of the Cherokee Nation on Saturday as the tribe deals with controversy surrounding a vote to rescind the tribal membership of the descendants of its slaves.
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African Americans in Congress are weighing whether to shift support from Clinton to Obama.
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Jubilant Iraqi exiles cast their ballots in a "vote for freedom" on Friday and urged their compatriots in Iraq to defy insurgents and do the same.
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Black leaders in Congress asked the federal government yesterday to weigh in on the legality of a vote by the Cherokee Nation earlier this month to revoke citizenship from descendants of former tribal slaves.
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Hundreds of South African prisoners, who have been in jail since the apartheid era, are hoping to reclaim their freedom by convincing the government that their crimes were politically motivated.
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Guantanamo prisoners and other  foreigners got a step closer to regaining the right to  challenge their detention in the U.S. courts in a bill approved  in a U.S. Senate committee on Thursday.