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Cherokee Nation Faces Scrutiny For Expelling Blacks

Black Freedmen, who are descended from the slaves of Cherokee Indians, protest  their expulsion on Sept.  2 outside a regional Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Muskogee, Okla. Marilyn Vann, in pink, is the president of the Descendants of Freedmen Association. (NPR)
Black Freedmen, who are descended from the slaves of Cherokee Indians, protest their expulsion on Sept. 2 outside a regional Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Muskogee, Okla. Marilyn Vann, in pink, is the president of the Descendants of Freedmen Association. (NPR)

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