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Who belongs in the Cherokee Nation?

podcast July 20, 2022


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In 1866, the Cherokee Nation promised citizenship for Black “freedmen” and their descendants. But more than a century later, the descendants of the freedman are calling foul on that promise being fulfilled. This episode, from our friends at The Experiment podcast (produced by WNYC and the Atlantic) gets into the messy history and fraught present.

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