From Kirsten Carlson:
In case you haven’t seen this, it’s a short video clip of Obama’s recent visit to the Crow Nation. He outlines some of his Indian policy in his speech.
Barak Obama
Obama on the Cherokee Freedmen
From the AP:
TULSA, Okla. (AP) – Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama believes Congress should let the judicial system do its work before getting involved in a dispute over Cherokee citizenship.
Obama says an injunction is in place protecting the rights of Cherokee freedmen, and Congress should not undermine the legal process.
Cherokee citizens voted last year to take away the tribal citizenship of the freedmen, who are descendants of slaves formerly owned by the tribe.
Lawsuits over the matter are pending in federal and tribal court.
Obama says federal intervention in internal matters of Indian tribes is rarely productive, and Congress should let the Cherokees decide the matter.
Clinton and Obama with the Future of the Crow Nation
From Reznet News:
What are the chances of this? One baby winds up in the arms of two presidential candidates—and the infant is a Crow tribal member.
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MISSOULA, Mont.—She’s not a superdelegate, she hasn’t donated money to any campaign and she won’t be eligible to vote until 2025.
Yet Tazawana Jo Barlow got face time and photo ops with both Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama when they appeared in Missoula last weekend.
How did the baby, who’s a Crow tribal member, manage the kind of access that most journalists and lobbyists can only dream about?
It helps to be 10 months old and very cute. That, and her mother has a knack for being in the right place at the right time.
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The story originally was published by CrowNews.Net [1] and is used with permission.
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