what current legal issue do the cherokee tribes have?
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"Cherokees, Easley staff discuss new gaming contract"\nhttp://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096412469\n\n"The Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians met in January with Gov. Mike Easley's legal adviser to discuss a new gaming agreement with the state as it seeks to add live poker at its casino, officials said."\n\n"Claim made on land planned for tribe"\nhttp://www.times-journal.com/report.lasso?WCD=5123\n\n"On Tuesday, former Fort Payne attorney Charles McGee filed a deed with the DeKalb County Probate Office, claiming one-half ownership of 69 acres of land that Hammonds has said he plans to deed to the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, currently based in Oklahoma."\n\n"Cigarette suit hinges on Cherokees' decision"\nhttp://www.durantdemocrat.com/articles/2006/02/07/news/news8.txt\n\n"The Cherokee Nation has 15 days to join area smoke-shop owners in a lawsuit over Oklahoma's new cigarette-tax rules or the legal challenge may be thrown out, a judge said Monday."
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What is the issue that you are asking about?
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I think you should add to your question and let us know if this is involving tribal law on a reservation or in American civil law.
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yes, she is, but I can't remember exactly what...Cherokee I think
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Part One\n(revised 2.28.96)\n\n\n[Note: This is a single part of what will be, by my classification, about 240 compact tribal histories (contact to 1900). It is limited to the lower 48 states of the U.S. but also includes those First Nations from Canada and Mexico that had important roles (Huron, Micmac, Assiniboine, etc.).\n\nAlthough this Cherokee history is larger than most, it's content and style are representative. The normal process at this point is to circulate an almost finished product among a peer group for comment and criticism.\n\nUsing the Internet, this can be more inclusive. Feel free to comment or suggest corrections via e-mail. Working together we can end some of the historical misinformation about Native Americans. You will find the ego at this end is standard size. Thanks for stopping by. I look forward to your comments...Lee Sultzman]\n\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nLocation\nOriginal: \n\nThe southern Appalachian Mountains: including western North and South Carolina, northern Georgia and Alabama, southwest Virginia, and the Cumberland Basin of Tennessee, Kentucky, and northern Alabama.\nCurrent: \nDistributed across the United States, but concentrated in eastern Oklahoma. The eastern Cherokee still maintain their reservation in western North Carolina. The Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana Territory has almost 12,000 members and has been recognized by the State of Missouri. Other groups of Cherokee, like the 2,500 members of the North Alabama Cherokee, are located in Arkansas, Georgia, and Alabama but currently do not have federal recognition.\n\nPopulation\nEuropean epidemics introduced into the southeastern United States in 1540 by the Desoto expedition are estimated to have killed at least 75% of the original native population. How much the Cherokee suffered from this disaster in unknown, but their population in 1674 was about 50,000. A series of smallpox epidemics (1729, 1738, and 1753) cut this in half, and it remained fairly stable at about 25,000 until their removal to Oklahoma during the 1830s. The American Civil War was the next disaster and cost the Cherokee 25% of their population. No other group of Americans, red or white, suffered as severely during this conflict. The 1990 census listed 308,132 persons (15,000 full-blood) who identified themselves as Cherokee. Of these, 95,435 were concentrated in eastern Oklahoma while 10,114 eastern Cherokee lived on or near the North Carolina reservation. Cherokee tribal governments have fairly liberal membership standards, and some estimates exceed 370,000, which would make the Cherokee the largest Native American group in the United States.\n\n\nName\nThe most familiar name, Cherokee, comes from a Creek word "Chelokee" meaning "people of a different speech." In their own language the Cherokee originally called themselves the Aniyunwiya (or Anniyaya) "principal people" or the Keetoowah (or Anikituaghi, Anikituhwagi) "people of Kituhwa." Although they usually accept being called Cherokee, many prefer Tsalagi from their own name for the Cherokee Nation (Tsalagihi Ayili). Other names applied to the Cherokee have been: Allegheny (or Allegewi, Talligewi) (Delaware), Baniatho (Arapaho), Caáxi (or Cayaki) (Osage and Kansa), Chalaque (Spanish), Chilukki (dog people) (Choctaw and Chickasaw), Entarironnen (mountain people) (Huron), Gatohuá (Creek), Kittuwa (or Katowá) (Algonquin), Matera (or Manteran) (coming out of the ground) ( Catawba), Nation du Chien (French), Ochietarironnon (Wyandot), Oyatageronon (or Oyaudah, Uwatayoronon) (cave people) (Iroquois), Shanaki (Caddo), Shannakiak (Fox), Tcaike (Tonkawa), and Tcerokieco (Wichita).\n\n\nLanguage\nIroquian, but Cherokee differs significantly from other Iroquian languages.\n\n\nSub-tribes\n\nThe Cherokee have been divided into three divisions depending on location and dialect (east to west): \nLower
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As far as our local tribe goes, their biggest problem is how to divide up the profits from the casino's.  Are you a rull blooded indian?  Should only those who live on the reservation qualify?\n\nGreed knows no color.
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When the Senate figures out how to get around the Constitutionality problem their bill has right now, or when one of the alternatives being introduced come up for a vote.\n\nYou could write or email your Congressmen to find out, and let them know of your interest.
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I think here in Michigan the biggest issue is whether we are going to allow a person to buy the office of Governor. I think restoring checks and balance to the federal government is also important. Dove hunting has become an issue as well as equal rights.
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It's a states rights issue.  It doesn't fall under the jurisdiction of the Federal Government
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I am Cherokee,\n     The book I have is called.."YOUR NAME in tsalagi"...or "YOUR NAME in Cherokee"...\nby PrenticeRobinson...he is Cherokee and teaches the Cherokee language.\n  This book gives regular names...for instance,\nmy name is Marsha...which in Cherokee is: MASYA, this book covers all the regular names...but gives the Cherokee way of saying and spelling each name.\n      Cherokee Language and Culture\n      4158 E.  48th.St.\n      Tulsa, Oklahoma\n                      74135\n(918)7493082\nAlso go to your search,type in ...Native American Names.\nSearch around you will find what you want...You did not specify what tribe so I just took it for granted you meant any tribe...
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Constitutional issues -- first, conduct versus speech.\nIs the rock concert conduct, or is it a form of expression?\n\nSame question for the drug use. Also, with the drug use, add in the question of neutral criminal laws regulating the conduct, versus laws that limit the expression intended by that conduct.\n\nAlso look at forum selection issues, prior restraint issues, the secondary effects doctrine, etc. If your class didn't cover any of these, you can ignore them -- or impress your teacher by researching them.
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even though its the law\n\nuntil all of these problems\n\nthat law should be suspended for now..
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The Constitution does briefly mention the Indians and Indian tribes.\n\nArticle I, Section 2. (later superceded by the 14th amendment) states that non-taxed Indians would not be counted as part of the population of the states used to determine Congressional representation.\n\nArticle I, Sec. 8 grants Congress the power to regulate trade "with the Indian Tribes."\n\nThese sections seem to imply that Native American tribes were seen as politically independent entities.
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Well...I have a relationship with an American Indian...we have few issues like these but when it comes to animals or land issues....I hear it for months....I love him...and I must try to be more considerate of his background.
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Well, yeah!--Half Cherokee and half Irish! When the Cherokee were forced to walk "The Trail of Tears" there were many who managed to hide in the Great Smokey Mountains and didn't go West with the others. So, there are Cherokee spread out from the east coast to Texas. The Eastern Band are in North Carolina. They married a lot of the Irish settlers who liked the green hills of the Appalachian Mountains because they looked so much like the green hills of Ireland. That's why there are so many Cherokee/Irish people in the southeastern part of the USA. \nIrish tempers go on Warpaths!!
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Horrible part of American history:\n\n The Trail of Tears refers to the forced relocation of the Cherokee Native American tribe to the Western United States in 1838, which resulted in the deaths of an estimated 4,000 Cherokee Indians. In the Cherokee language, the event is called Nunna daul Isunyi—"the Trail Where We Cried."\n\nThe Trail of Tears resulted from the enforcement of the Treaty of New Echota, an agreement signed under the provisions of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which exchanged Native American land in the East for lands west of the Mississippi River, but was never accepted by the elected tribal leadership Chief John Ross, or majority of the Cherokee people. Nevertheless, the treaty was enforced by President Martin Van Buren, who sent federal troops to round up about 17,000 Cherokees in camps before being sent to the west. Most of the deaths occurred from disease in these camps. After the initial round up, the U.S. military played a limited role in the journey itself, with the Cherokee Nation taking over supervision of most of the emigration. The Treaty of New Echota was signed by a small faction of prominent Cherokees, Major Ridge, Elias Boudinot (Buck Watie), and Stan Watie, and their followers willingly left Georgia for Oklahoma Prior to the forced removal. The signing of the Treaty entailed accepting payment from the government for their land in Georgia and relocating to Oklahoma. This touched off what is known as the "Blood Feud" between the two factions in which Elias Boudinot (Buck Watie) and Major Ridge and his son were murdered in Oklahoma after the removal of John Ross and his factions of Cherokees to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears. This split the Cherokee Nation into two factions, the Western Cherokee's led by Major Ridge and the Eastern faction who continued to recongize Chief John Ross as the Chief of the Cherokee Nation.\n\nThe Cherokees were not the only Native Americans forced to emigrate during this era, and so the phrase "Trail of Tears" is sometimes used to refer to similar events endured by other Indian peoples, especially among the "Five Civilized Tribes." In fact, the phrase "Trail of Tears" may have originated as a description of the removal of the Choctaw nation. See Indian Removal for more details.
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No, there aren't. I'm part Cherokee. I'm not from Oklahoma, but my mother was born in Poteau, and my grandfather was also from Oklahoma. The Cherokee Nation is in Tahlequah, OK.\n\nOklahoma has 39 federally-recognized tribal nations headquartered in the state, and ranks second to California as the state with the largest Native American population.