3 March 2007

WP: Cherokee Nation may expel blacks - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com

WP: Cherokee Nation may expel blacks - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com

Cherokees, along with Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks and Seminoles, were long known as the "Five Civilized Tribes" because they adopted many of the ways of their white neighbors in the South, including the holding of black slaves.

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