Freedmen and descendants still in limbo pending appeal

From the Tulsa World:

"Judge John Cripps, who ruled last month that the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma had to accept applications from freedmen descendants disenfranchised by a March 2007 citizenship referendum, ruled in favor of the tribe's request to extend a temporary injunction against processing new applications from the affected group. 
The roughly 2,800 freedmen descendants who were tribal citizens before the referendum's passage will retain all rights and responsibilities associated with citizenship. 
To date, the Cherokee Nation has received about 3,500 applications from freedmen descendants. 
The tribe is still accepting applications, as per the district court's ruling, but will not begin to process them until after the tribe's Supreme Court rules on the matter." 

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