Pocahontas Backfire: Does Warren Have A �Trail Of Tears� Problem In Her Family Tree?

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#1 | Pocahontas Backfire: Does Warren Have A �Trail Of Tears� Problem In Her Family Tree? datum

Mon Aug 26, 2019 9:12 am

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In 1836, Warren�s great-great-great-grandfather, a white man named William Marsh, enlisted himself in a Tennessee militia to fight in the �Cherokee War,� an occupation of Cherokee land in the lead-up to the Trail of Tears. Decades later, his grandson John Houston Crawford moved his family onto Indian Territory and squatted on Cherokee land in a move that, with no record of a permit, was almost certainly illegal.

The Crawfords were just some of the tens of thousands of white squatters who outnumber Cherokees on our own land. While Cherokee Nation beseeched Congress to enforce our treaty rights and kick them out, the squatters pushed Congress to divide up our treaty territory and create a path to white land ownership; the squatters won.

The Crawfords settled in the new state of Oklahoma. They lived among Indians, but it wasn�t always peaceful. In 1906, John Crawford shot a Creek man for hitting his son. According to The Boston Globe, his son, Rosco, would later tell stories about how �mean� the Indians were. But one of Crawford�s grandchildren, Pauline Reed, told a very different story. Not a story of living among Indians, a story of being Indian.

Pauline�s youngest child, Elizabeth, grew up with her mother�s version of the story. And though the family had no evidence or relationship to the tribe, Elizabeth Warren never questioned it, she wrote in her memoir. It was her family story, she would say...

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https://clashdaily.com/2019/08/pocahonta...er-family-tree/

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#2 | RE: Pocahontas Backfire: Does Warren Have A �Trail Of Tears� Problem In Her Family Tree? datum

Mon Aug 26, 2019 9:55 am

So does she now owe the Cherokee Nations reparations ?

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#3 | RE: Pocahontas Backfire: Does Warren Have A �Trail Of Tears� Problem In Her Family Tree? datum

Mon Aug 26, 2019 5:22 pm

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The Cherokee Nation announced Thursday that it intends to appoint a delegate to the US House of Representatives, asserting for the first time a right promised to the tribe in a nearly 200-year-old treaty with the federal government.

It was a historic step for the Oklahoma-based Cherokee Nation and its nearly 370,000 members, coming about a week after Chuck Hoskin Jr. was sworn in as principal chief of the tribe. The Cherokee Nation says it's the largest tribal nation in the US and one of three federally recognized Cherokee tribes.

It was a historic step for the Oklahoma-based Cherokee Nation and its nearly 370,000 members, coming about a week after Chuck Hoskin Jr. was sworn in as principal chief of the tribe. The Cherokee Nation says it's the largest tribal nation in the US and one of three federally recognized Cherokee tribes.

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The Cherokee Nation's right to appoint a delegate stems from the same treaty that the US government used to forcibly remove the tribe from its ancestral lands.

As a result of the 1835 Treaty of New Echota, the Cherokee were ultimately made to leave their homes in the Southeast for present-day Oklahoma in exchange for money and other compensation. Nearly 4,000 members of the tribe died of disease, starvation and exhaustion on the journey now known as the Trail of Tears.

A delegate in the House of Representatives was one of the ways the US government promised to compensate the Cherokee Nation.

So why is the tribe only taking up the offer now?

Ezra Rosser, a law professor at American University, told CNN that the US government has long made it difficult for tribes to exercise rights afforded to them in treaties. But now, tribes are asserting themselves in a way that demands the attention of non-Native Americans.

The treaty doesn't specify whether or not the Cherokee Nation's delegate would be a voting member of the legislature. But

Hoskin said the position might look something like the non-voting members that represent Washington, D.C., and five US territories.