Turtle Talk

The New York Times’ “Room for Debate” series has published a series of articles on the Cherokee Freedmen controversy.

Debaters

• Define ‘Real Indians’

  Kevin Noble Maillard, law professor, Syracuse University

• It’s About Ancestry

  Cara Cowan-Watts, speaker, Cherokee Council

• A Weak Sovereign

  Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Turtle Talk law blog

• The Role of Blood Quantum

  Rose Cuison Villazor, Hofstra University Law School

• My Cherokee Identity

  Heather Williams, Freedmen descendent

• Slavery’s Long Shadow

  Carla D. Pratt, law professor, Penn State University

• Why the Freedmen Fight

  Tiya Miles, historian, University of Michigan

• The True Meaning of Sovereignty

  Joanne Barker, associate professor, American Indian studies