Let Us All Be Serious, Just Joking, for a Minute About the LIST

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Friday, July 3, 2026, 4:00 pm

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BIG JOKE

PL No 241 of 1902 Chapter 1375  AN ACT To provide for the allotment of the lands of the Cherokee Nation, for the disposition of town sites therein, and for other purposes.

SEC. 25. The roll of citizens of the Cherokee Nation shall be made as of September first, nineteen hundred and two, and the names of all persons then living and entitled to enrollment on that date shall be placed on said roll by the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes.

SEC. 26. The names of all persons living on the first day of September, nine teen hundred and two, entitled to be enrolled as provided in section twenty-five hereof, shall be placed upon the roll made by said Commission, and no child born thereafter to a citizen, and no white person who has intermarried with a Cherokee citizen since the sixteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, shall be entitled to enrollment or to participate in the distribution of the tribal property of the Cherokee Nation.

JOKE 1 - According to PL 241 of 1902 Chapter 1375, the JOKE is no Cherokee born after September 1, 1902 can be enrolled as a Citizen of the Cherokee Nation.  This was ratified by the Cherokee Nation on August 7, 1902.

PUNCHLINE 1 – Congratulations to every person who is enrolled as a Citizen of the Cherokee Nation who must be celebrating at least their 124th Birthday in 2026.

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Public Law 129 April 26, 1906 - The Curtis Act
CHAP. 1876. – An Act To provide for the final disposition of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory, and other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative of the United States of America in Congress assembles, That after the approval of this Act no person shall be enrolled as a citizen or freedman of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, or Seminole tribes of Indians in the Indian Territory, except as herein otherwise provided, unless application for enrollment was made prior to December first, nineteen hundred and five, and the records in charge of the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes shall be conclusive evidence as to the fact of such application; and no motion to reopen or reconsider and citizenship case, in any of said tribes, shall be entertained unless files with the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes within sixty days after the date of the order or decision sought to be reconsidered except as to  decisions made prior to the passage of this Act, in which cases such motion shall be made within sixty days after the passage of this Act:
Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior may enroll persons whose names appear upon any of the tribal rolls and for whom the records in charge of the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes show application was made prior to December first, nineteen hundred and five, and which was not allowed solely because not made within the time prescribed by law.

JOKE 2 – According to Public Law 129 of April 26, 1906, That after the approval of this Act no person shall be enrolled as a citizen or freedman of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, or Seminole tribes of Indians . . . unless application for enrollment was made prior to December first, nineteen hundred and five.

PUNCHLINE 2 – Congratulations to every person who is enrolled as a citizen or freedman of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, or Seminole tribes of Indians who must be celebrating at least their 121st Birthday in 2026.

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BIGGER JOKE

The LIST is a Walking, Talking JOKE. Tribes Who Should Be On the LIST Are Not On the LIST While Tribes Who Should Not Be On the LIST Are

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1994 Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act:

To provide for the annual publication of a list of federally recognized Indian tribes, and for other purposes.

TITLE I--WITHDRAWAL OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OR RECOGNITION

SEC. 102. DEFINITIONS.
For the purposes of this title:
(1) The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of the Interior.
(2) The term ``Indian tribe'' means any Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village or community that the Secretary of the Interior acknowledges to exist as an Indian tribe.
(3) The term ``list'' means the list of recognized tribes published by the Secretary pursuant to section 104 of this title.

SEC. 103. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds that--
(1) the Constitution, as interpreted by Federal case law, invests Congress with plenary authority over Indian Affairs;
(2) ancillary to that authority, the United States has a trust responsibility to recognized Indian tribes, maintains a government-to-government relationship with those tribes, and recognizes the sovereignty of those tribes;
(3) Indian tribes presently may be recognized by Act of Congress; by the administrative procedures set forth in part 83 of the Code of Federal Regulations denominated ``Procedures for Establishing that an American Indian Group Exists as an Indian Tribe;'' or by a decision of a United States court;
(4) a tribe which has been recognized in one of these manners may not be terminated except by an Act of Congress;
(5) Congress has expressly repudiated the policy of terminating recognized Indian tribes, and has actively sought to restore recognition to tribes that previously have been terminated;
(6) the Secretary of the Interior is charged with the responsibility of keeping a list of all federally recognized tribes;
(7) the list published by the Secretary should be accurate, regularly updated, and regularly published, since it is used by the various departments and agencies of the United States to determine the eligibility of certain groups to receive services from the United States; and
(8) the list of federally recognized tribes which the Secretary publishes should reflect all of the federally recognized Indian tribes in the United States which are eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians.

TITLE II--CENTRAL COUNCIL OF TLIN- GIT AND HAIDA INDIAN TRIBES OF
ALASKA

SEC. 202. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds and declares that--
(1) the United States has acknowledged the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska pursuant to the Act of June 19, 1935 (49 Stat. 388, as amended, commonly referred to as the ``Jurisdiction Act''), as a federally recognized Indian tribe;
(2) on October 21, 1993, the Secretary of the Interior published a list of federally recognized Indian tribes pursuant to part 83 of title 25 of the Code of Federal Regulations which omitted the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska;
(3) the Secretary does not have the authority to terminate the federally recognized status of an Indian tribe as determined by Congress;
(4) the Secretary may not administratively diminish the privileges and immunities of federally recognized Indian tribes without the consent of Congress; and
(5) the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska continues to be a federally recognized Indian tribe.

SEC. 203. REAFFIRMATION OF TRIBAL STATUS.
The Congress reaffirms and acknowledges that the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska is a federally recognized Indian tribe.

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THE BIGGEST JOKE
How are “Tribes” that can legally have no citizens because they are all dead, be on the LIST?

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