Many people have asked why it matters that she removed a clause requiring the Cherokee Nation to treat the Freedmen equally in receiving housing funding? I’ll tell you why. Cherokee Freedmen are not eligible for CBIDs, although I think they should be (Freedmen “Blood” should
be counted as Indian Blood). Anyone who has a CBID knows that for most services (especially outside of your tribal boundaries), you need a CBID. You need to present a CBID for healthcare, now Haskell is trying to deny Freedmen based on the fact that they do not have CBIDs.
There are many other services based on CBIDs as well. The Cherokee Nation, under the leadership of @ChuckHoskin_Jr, is urging other tribes and other facilities to treat Freedmen equally and has sent the same directive to their programs. This is great. However, this could change
at any moment. If a new Chief were to be elected or (God forbid) if Chief Hoskin were to change his declaration, Cherokee Freedmen could go back to second-class citizenship, like the Seminole Freedmen. Being citizens and being counted when applying for funding, but then being
denied services. Because it’s been determined that we can’t have CBIDs, we need our tribes to stand for us. The Seminole Nation has denied Freedmen services and told other tribes to deny them services as well. Citizenship doesn’t guarantee equal treatment. That’s why Freedmen
support keeping the clause in for Cherokee Freedmen in NAHASDA and its why we support Maxine Water’s clause pertaining to Freedmen of all Five Tribes. Our tribes should not be able to deny us services based on race and continue to receive our tax-payer funds for their
discriminatory programs. There’s really a quick fix for the tribes, if they want to accept money for their co-signer of the Treaties of 1866. TREAT YOUR FREEDMEN EQUALLY.
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