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The article focuses the Cherokee Nation, the largest Indian tribe in the U.S. It mentions law clerk David Cornsilk became a lay advocate who fought for the Freedmen descendants' citizenship rights. It says that the tribe signed a treaty with the U.S. government in the summer of 1866, in which perpet...

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Published in:	This Land Vol. 4; no. 10; pp. 6 - 15
Main Author:	BARBERY, MARCOS
Format:	Article
Published:	This Land Press, LLC 5/15/2013
Subjects:	Federally recognized tribes Cornsilk, David Constitutions Native American tribal citizenship Legal status of freedmen Cherokee Nation
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost