does the cherokee nation have a disability program?
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Go to http://www.cherokeenation.org\nRegister in the upper left hand corner.\nThen you can search the benefits available to you.
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The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents\nCherokee People-inhabited area that is now NC, SC, GA, TN, AL, KT, VA.\nRigid division of labor by gender:\nMen- hunting (essential)\nWomen- farming (essential)\n··        By 1000 A..D. Cherokee people ate a varied + balanced diet of meat, corn, and vegetables; while most English were eating coarse bread + ale.\nCherokee Homestead consisted of several buildings around a small plaza with large rectangular wooden houses for summer, and small round houses with thick mud-plastered walls for winter; as well as, a variety of corn cribs + other storage  buildings.\nHouseholds had several generations living together: mother, daughters, husbands, and unmarried sons.  Society based on matrilineal kinship.  This means that your family was defined by who your mother was.\n Farming: Each household had a small garden near the home, but most produce came from large fields where all women worked together.\n··        Together homesteads formed permanent villages with a large round town house or council house that seated the whole village; villages were typically up to several hundred people.\n··        Decisions made by consensus; some opinions weighed more heavily than others based on age and position, but all could speak.\n Population of the Cherokee nation was more than 30,000 before Europeans introduced diseases like small pox, typhus, and measles.  By 1700 there were only 16,000 Cherokees; they lost many valued elders, their wisdom, and knowledge.   In addition, their belief in a harmonious world was undermined.\nEarly contact with British about 1700 \nMain trade: deerskins + war captives for slavery in exchange for guns, ammunition, metal tools (knives, hoes, hatchets, kettles), fabric, rum, and trinkets.\n··        By mid-century slave trade declined, but fur trade continued.\n··        Cherokees experienced increased war between clans as traditional societies diminished.\n··        Tribes allied with British and French in the French/Indian War, and with the British in the American Revolution.\n1783- The Treaty of Paris marked the end of the American Revolution, and gave the United States rights to British colonies by  “right of conquest.”\n··        Congress extended this to relations with Indians, and Indians lost their lands to U.S.\n··        This was based on the “right of discovery”, which gave Christian Europeans the right to claim and occupy the lands of non-Christian and “uncivilized peoples.”\n End of 1780’s- U.S. abandoned assertion that tribes were conquered enemies; also the U.S. constitution changed things. \nHenry Knox, the  first secretary of war, developed Indian policy.  Native tribes were sovereign, independent nations with rights to autonomous self-government. \nChanges in the economic system for the Cherokee nation:\n··        Became less egalitarian with emphasis on wealth + private property.\n··        Loss of status for women because of increased significance of conflict + the fact that European-American women did not participate in the political process.  This led to diminishing of matrilineal kinship traditions.\n··        Developed written code of law to protect private property, 1808.\n··        1810: another body of law centralized power, which led to loss of clan-based emphasis.\n··        Wealthy Cherokees dominated political process.\n··        1820’s they developed a written Cherokee language.\n··        1828 began publication of “Cherokee Phoenix.”\nPressure for Removal after 1812:\n··        As agriculture and transportation systems boomed, whites wanted to move inland.\n··        Native peoples held thousands of square miles of very fertile land + demand for that land increased with population increases.\n··        The pressure for removal was driven by the racist theory that Indians were inferior.\n··        1830- Indian Removal Act\n··        1838-39- Removal of Cherokee Nation to Oklaho
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Legally it is NOT considered a disability. But once you begin to suffer many of the effects (neuropathy, amputations, blindness, etc.) then those are considered disabilities.
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Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw and Seminole
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I believe the court should be required to provide one for you, if you don't know one already.\n\n(under ADA = Americans with Disabilities Act)\n\nMost states have agencies that specialize in serving the deaf/hard-of-hearing community - try looking in your local phone book for state agencies, or contact your state's dept. of human services (or equivalent).\nThey would be able to put you in contact with an interpreter & inform you of your rights under ADA & state laws.
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Nope.\nhttp://www.hud.gov/offices/fheo/disabilities/fhefhasp.cfm
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http://cherokeehistory.com/map1.html\n\nThats a good site with lots of maps. The Cherokee were forced to move west so I'd imagine theyre all somewhere in Oklahoma or somewhere in that general region now. Several of my ancestors were Cherokees and I believe my distant relatives live in Oklahoma, but I could be wrong.\n\n\nPeace
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You can check with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Wikipedia has info on many Native American tribes and their respective histories.
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Yes. They have special accommodations for the physically challenged. (however temporary)
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My advice would be to check with the Native American Rights Fund, (www.narf.org).  Their entire existence involves such issues.  Most surround the US government's violation of existing treaties with tribal groups, illegal selling of native antiquities, and the refusal of the US government to officially recognize tribal groups.  I suspect there are many others issues as well.
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If she lived in Arizona her whole life then there's a good chance she's on the rolls in that state. Do a google search for the Arizona state government's website.\n\nAlso google the website for the Cherokee Nation and also the Oklahoma state government website.
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I am assuming by roll number you are refering to a native american registry roll. If this is the case contact the tribal office of Indian affairs they should be able to point you in the right direction
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Do a search of your state. For example type "Division of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing NJ" if you live in NJ. You can also do searches of "disability".
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At church. I'm Cherokee Indian. \nhttp://www.aibftexas.org/main/
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Yes. Speak to her physician or psychiatrist. You will need a letter of reference from him/her. You can apply for disability allowances.
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I am severely dyslexic and YES there are many grants, fellowships, AND scholarships available. Dyslexia counts as a disability so long as it is documented. I suggest this web site to search for funding:\n\nhttp://www.fastweb.com
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My son has it also and I have never heard of such a thing.  Maybe if it is severe and she has to stay home and care for him it could be considered a disability enough for her to get a check like that.  I have been switching meds left and right to find the right ones.  Good luck.\n\nRight now we are on aderall.