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Freedmen dispute could affect aid bill

 
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Published: April 5, 2008

TULSA — Some federal lawmakers are urging the U.S. Senate to include a clause in an American Indian housing assistance bill denying benefits to the Cherokee Nation unless it recognizes descendants of the tribe's former black slaves, known as freedmen.

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