Legal Opinion
Vann v. United States Department of the Interior
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided December 14, 2012No. 11-5322PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge KAVANAUGH.
KAVANAUGH, Circuit Judge:
Before the Civil War, members of the Cherokee Nation had slaves. Those slaves were freed in 1866 pursuant to a treaty negotiated between the United States and the Cherokee Nation. The Treaty guaranteed the former Cherokee slaves and their descendants—known as the Freedmen— “all the rights of native Cherokees” in perpetuity. See Treaty with the Cherokee, art. 9, July 19, 1866, 14 Stat. 799. Those rights included the right to tribal membership and the right to vote in tribal elections.
At some point, the Cherokee…
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