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Creation of this page

I created this page on the basis that there is little knowledge about this subject anywhere. All material pertaining to this issue weems to have a POV attached to it and therefore anybody who is looking for answers and not persuation should try and find it here. I do need help though filling out this page. Please help me do so, not only for me, but for the Cherokee people who need to make up their own minds and not be persuaded by political and tribal factions.Iwasmad 14:08, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

David Cornsilk

I think the paragraph about him at the end could probably go into its own article. Smmurphy 16:00, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

move

Does anyone mind if this is moved to (or merged with the old version) of Cherokee Freedmen, which is currently a redirect? If not, at least a good deal of the history could go over there. Smmurphy 05:57, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

A general article about all Freedmen is a better candidate. There are freedmen from all five tribes and they all were placed onto a single roll -- the Freedmen Roll. There were no "Cherokee Freedmen" as such recognized by the Dawes Commission as all Freedmen from the five civilized tribes were lumped together. The Cherokee Freedmen are in fact all of the freedmen listed on the Freedmen rolls from all five tribes, so its not particularly just a "Cherokee" issue. Jeffrey Vernon Merkey 17:56, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

This goes again to the dispute over whether people of Cherokee heritage not on the right rolls can be called Cherokee. There is an article freedman, and I just linked this from there. Putting this material into that article would imbalance that article, but would be an option. Smmurphy 18:23, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree. There's a lot more here you may not be aware of. The freedmen issue is not strictly confined to the Cherokee. The Seminole Nation also disenrolled thier freedmen members. What would make more sense is an article titled "Oklahoma Freedmen" or "Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes", the latter of which is far more accurate. Remember, these Freedmen spoke a native language. Jeffrey Vernon Merkey 21:39, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Issue summary section

The section called "The Issue" came from an old version of Cherokee Freedmen that was brought here when Cherokee Freedmen became a redirect (at least I think I remember that being the case). The section was a bit POV, and a bit redundant with the history section. The section has now been renamed "Issue summary," which seems to be less POV (and much better cited), but still a bit redundant with other sections. However, I think that the redundancy is ok, but it should be in the lead section, rather than the issue summary section. Thus, I think that the old section (if/where it was citable and NPOV), the rewrite, and the lead should all be merged into a new lead. Best, Smmurphy 18:17, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

I would really like it if you would stop placing garbage about the Cherokee Nation into Misplaced Pages. You do not seem to have the accurate materials about what's going on in the Cherokee Nation, or related to any of these controversies. Thanks. Jeffrey Vernon Merkey 04:01, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

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