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11:00 am
Tue September 20, 2011
America's 2nd Largest Indian Tribe Expels Blacks
By NPR Staff
The Cherokee Nation recently stripped citizenship from a majority of African-Americans who descended from slaves of wealthy Cherokee Indians before the Civil War. Host Michel Martin discusses this controversial move with MacArthur Fellow Tiya Miles, who studies interrelated histories of African-Americans and Native Americans.