As expected - Cherokee Nation appeals Freedmen case to tribe's Supreme Court

From NewsOK:

"The Cherokee Nation filed an appeal in its tribal Supreme Court on Tuesday to defend a constitutional amendment that effectively barred freedmen who don’t have tribal blood from Cherokee citizenship.

The appeal comes less than two weeks after a Cherokee Nation district judge ruled that an 1866 treaty between the tribe and the U.S. government protected the citizenship of freedmen, the descendants of slaves once owned by Cherokees. The judge’s ruling overturned the 2007 tribal constitutional amendment that required tribal blood for citizenship.

Diane Hammons, attorney general for the Cherokee Nation, said, “A constitutional case of this magnitude should be decided by the Cherokee Nation’s highest court.”

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