Can anyone explain why the Cherokees pulled memberships of Freed Slaves?

Question

This was posted today on AOL. How and why did this come about? If anyone has any information, please let me know.


"OKLAHOMA CITY (March 4) - The Cherokee Nation vote this weekend to revoke the citizenship of the descendants of people the Cherokee once owned as slaves was a blow to people who have relied on tribal benefits.
In Saturday's special election, more than 76 percent of voters decided to amend the Cherokee Nation's constitution to remove the estimated 2,800 freedmen descendants from the tribal rolls, according to results posted Sunday on the tribe's Web site."

Answer 1

Their ancestors were likely enrolled by mistake during the time of the Dawes Act. People who are not of Cherokee ancestry are not to be on the rolls, but during that time, it was impossible to figure out who was who. The term is disenrollment, and that's the most common reason for it. If you take a look at the tribal rolls, you'll see a little "S" by some names on the original. That means they were enrolled first, but then stricken from the rolls because of an error. It isn't uncommon except for the number of people in this case. We have a few S's on the Eastern Band Cherokee rolls too, but our rolls aren't half the size of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.

And we don't receive ANYTHING free. That's a huge misconception. If we make money from our enterprises, it goes to OUR people first though---as it would in any sovereign nation with any sense. That's how it ought to be.

Answer 2

The dont want to share all the free government funds/incentives they receive.

Answer 3

Because Indians hate nіggers too. So much for that nіgger-Indian alliance. The nіggers should just move to West Africa and be with their own nіgger kind.