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Cherokee freedmen win round

 
  
Published: December 20, 2006

TAHLEQUAH -- A Cherokee Nation motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by freedmen was denied by a U.S. District Court.

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Cherokee freedmen filed a lawsuit against the United States claiming U.S. officials breached their fiduciary duty by failing to endorse a treaty and the 13th Amendment, which outlawed slavery. They said this happened when the they were denied the right to vote in the Cherokee Nation's 2003 election for principal chief and an amendment to the Cherokee Constitution.

Cherokee officials filed a motion to dismiss the suit and that action was dismissed Tuesday in the District of Columbia.

Jon Velie, an attorney for the freedmen, said the ruling also permits the freedmen, who are descendants of slaves who were adopted into the tribe, to add the Cherokee Nation and Principal Chief Chad Smith to the lawsuit.

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