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[SloJon]

Defend Ward Churchill? I doubt it.......

This is a note I sent to a Rocky Mtn News reporter following an investigative article published by RMN:

Mr. Steers,

Thank you for your story exposing prof. Churchill as a non-indian. You did well except for two disrepencies......The Keetoowah people are Cherokee, but definetly NOT connected to the CNO. Also, the Keetoowah require a blood quantum of at least 25%(1/4) for membership....not the 1/16 quoted. CNO has
no blood quantum requirement and only rcvd Congressional mandate as a Tribe in 1998 due to certain political realities when Ada Deer headed the BIA. The CNO was a Okla. corporation started by Phillips Oil in 1951 to gain access to oil leases in eastern Okla. To this day, full-bloods regard CNO as a federal scam. (CNO = Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma)

I am white, but was married to a Keetoowah for 30 yrs until my wife's death in 2003.

Respectfully,

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Claremore, OK.