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Cherokee Freedmen Case Returns to Capitol Hill; US Circuit Court of Appeals Will Re-Hear Vann v. Salazar
A photo of Cole Brings Plenty with his cousin Candi Brings Plenty's dog stood in the center of the Memorial Park Bandshell in Rapid City at an April 14 vigil. (Photo by Amelia Schafer, ICT/Rapid City Journal)
This week, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will be the latest venue to hear arguments in the Cherokee Freedmen citizenship dispute-the ongoing legal battle over whether descendants of liberated Cherokee-owned slaves should be…read more