Freedmen and the Five Tribes

A few years back, Microkhan wrote a lengthy Wired opus about a thorny conflict in Oklahoma: The battle over whether descendants of freedmen should be allowed to join the Native American tribes that their ancestors had belonged to. Now the Obama administration is may be entering the fray:

In a letter sent to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder last week, the six lawmakers say, “The illegal actions of the leadership of the Five Tribes, some of which are the wealthiest tribes in Indian Country, have r