zzx375, BA (6/27/2009 7:20:06 AM)

"the new head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs"

Don't we get the government we deserve, even if it is in the appointed form?

Graychin, Eucha (6/27/2009 7:57:31 AM)

Good editorial. I think we can expect the BIA to back away from this nonsense as the tribe turns up the heat.

Eagle 4, Tulsa (6/27/2009 8:40:16 AM)

And will we return to reverence of the English King because the Liberal Revolutionaries are now all dead? Let's not get TOO conservative, EchoHawk!

just passing through, (6/27/2009 2:04:35 PM)

This needs to be settled in court so it will never come up again. This sounds like a case of a clouded title that needs to be cleaned up once and for all so there is no confusion in the future.

Or is this just an attempt by someone to get the tribe to re-open the rolls?

Either way it seems like the BIA could just make a ruling on it in the tribes favor and remove all doubt.

As if anyone had any to begin with.

cherokeeprincess, (6/27/2009 7:11:15 PM)

Thank you for a great editorial. Isn't it interesting that the editor of a newspaper knows more about Indian history than the Indian the government is putting in charge of the BIA does? Why wait around for woman from California to terminate the tribes in Oklahoma when the BIA can terminate the tribes across the entire nation with the lack of knowledge they have.

DT, (6/28/2009 12:17:16 PM)

Echohawk's ham-handed attempts to define and limit the rights of the historic Cherokee Nation in terms of the timeline of how the US tried to destroy us is truly mind-boggling. He ignores numerous federal court decisions correcting those wrongs and seeks to return to the days of BIA "bureaucratic imperialism." The tribe will be forced, once again, to spend precious time and resources just defending our basic right to be who we are. Coming from the appointee of a President who campaigned vigorously in Indian Country, pledging to respect the nation-to-nation relationship we have with the feds; this is absolutely outrageous.

hacksawndn, (6/28/2009 6:16:16 PM)

xx375, Graychin, cherokeeprincess and DT

Echohawk and the BIA attorneys didn't do anything that wasn't coming for the last several years. If you were following this you would have seen that the former administration under George W. Bush was pushing the Muskogee regional office to complete the land in trust acquisition in favor of the UKBCIO.

The Muskogee BIA regional director cited numerous reasons why she felt it could not be completed but could never come up with anything solid as why it wasn't when directed to cite and explain her reasoning. This is reflected and cited in the decision. It is and always has been in the public record.

Like it or not. It will end up in court. No doubt the CNO will find a way to get it there. Until then the decision stands and the CNO will have to live with their "older" brother. The US government seems to have continued a relationship with the Keetoowah Society, (the roots of the UKBCIO), after the CN was terminated. Wonder where this would take a panel of judges.

I expected the media in this area to take the side of the CNO citing just enough info to get people riled up...

A friend of mine remarked today and I've heard it all my life. "You don't bite the hand that feed$$ you."

Ed 8 R, Non (6/29/2009 5:25:19 PM)

NOT surprised Tulsa World Editors are putting their money on the Cherokee Nation of OKLAHOMA as that is where they get their money. CNO gaming ads are keeping these editors’ bread buttered.