I don't quite know how many of you are Cherokee, or if you are if you have been following the great controversy over the issue of the Freedmen on the rolls of the Cherokee Nation. It saddens me to see this kind of controversy going on within the Nation as this argument would never have been an issue among our ancestors. To them, if you lived as a Cherokee you were accepted as a Cherokee. While some of the wealthy mixed blood Cherokees had plantations and held slaves , they were never treated like slaves of the neighboring whites. Most of the time they were adopted into the tribe and married Cherokees. So why are some within the tribe today trying to eliminate/bar the decedents of these Freedmen from the enrolling as full citizens of the great Cherokee Nation???? My heart is heavy, and I pray to the Creator that, The People will right this great wrong. dohi (peace)