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Of course, you can't trust the government. I never have and never will...but perhaps it's in my blood as a Native American. Most of us who are Native know that the government lies to us and it seems they try their hardest to make everyone miserable. The all Native American high school I graduated from was almost shut down by the BIA. Some ignorant woman in California claimed that the tribe was being racist when it voted out the Freedmen members of the tribe. The Freedmen were the African slaves that came into the tribe (as family and even were accepted into clans, not as slaves). They were voted out because the Nation wanted citizens who were Cherokee by blood, not treaty. What's her back up? She claims she's the decendant of Pocahontas(sp?) and yet she can't even name the tribe that she's from (Powhatan band of Patowatomi). But basically, she's using some unrelated excuse to try and cut off government funding to the tribe. Anywho, that's way off topic.
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