Somebody may want to use this alternative definition of who is an Indian in a future discussion:
"The Keetoowah Society and the Avocation of Religious Nationalism in the Cherokee Nation, 1855-1867
By Patrick Minges
Chapter Four
Return of the Native
...A week before the Indian Expedition was to set out for Indian Territory, a group of Union Osage scouts from Kansas encountered some pro-Union Cherokee who were heading to Kansas to meet up with their brethren prior to the invasion. The Cherokee, members of the Keetoowah Society, were bringing messages of support and solidarity for the invasion; they reported two-thousand warriors within the Nation led by a Cherokee named Salmon. There were even reports of a significant number of former slaves, being enrolled as wooly-headed Indians, joining up with the loyalist forces in the Indian Territory.
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http://www.us-data.org/us/minges/keetood4.html
This is also a good reminder that I hope Congressional persons will make themselves available to that there can be no compromise for the Treaty rights earned for Native Nation slaves in Indian Territory. This is a particular right paid for with blood and life, a human right that can not be bargained or abrogated away by either the U.S. or the Native Nations.
