The Cherokee Nation Is Terminated and Does Not Exist
The Proof is in the Pudding – The Termination and Congressional Non-Recognition of the Cherokee (East and West) and the Five Civilized Tribes in the Statutes and Codes of the United States since 1887
Each Proof is in Chronological Order with Amendments Added After the Act and Before Editorial Assertion.
Either the Congress of the United States does or does not have plenary power over Indians, Treaties, and Policies of the United States governing Indians. It appears the Congress of the United States ceded its plenary powers to the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the Office of Federal Acknowledgement (OFA). The Will of the Congress and the Original Intent of the Congress itself is being usurped by the BIA in that the BIA intentionally provides services and benefits to terminated Tribes which no longer are Federally Recognized while at the same time refusing to provide services and benefits to Federally Recognized Tribes. If the Congress does retain it Plenary Powers, then it must rectify the injustices committed not just against The Chickamauga Nation, but against all of the Federally Neglected Tribes.
Over the next few days, The Chickamauga Nation will be posting a series of Proofs documenting the Statutes and Codes enacted by the Congress of the United States. After each set of Statutes and Codes, we will be making Editorial Assertions dealing with the Original Intent of the Laws and the meaning of the Law as it is interpreted by the Cannons of Construction.
The Proofs Include:
Proof 1 - Act of February 8, 1887 – (Indian General Allotment Act)
[24 Stat. 388, 25 U.S.C. §§331 – 334, 339,341, 342, 348, 349, 354, 381.]
As Amended through P.L. 109-221, Enacted May 12, 2006
Proof 2 – Rights of White Men Marrying Indian Women, Tribal Property
[25 U.S.C. § 181]
Proof 3 – The 1896 Curtis Act
June 28, 1898 Fifty-Fifth Congress Session 2 Chapter 517 of 1898
Proof 4 - The Cherokee Agreement - 32 Statute 716
July 1, 1902 The Fifty-Seventh Congress of the United State Session Chapter 1375 of July 1, 1902 32 Statute 716
This agreement ratified by Cherokee Nation at an election held August 7, 1902.
Proof 5 - Chief William Charles Rogers Address to Cherokee Council
At the final session of the Cherokee Council on November 9, 1904,
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 17, No. 2, June, 1939
Proof 6 – The 1906 Curtis Act
April 26, 1906 The Eighty-Sixth Congress of the United States Session 1 34 Stat 137, Public Law 86-192 1906.
AMENDED: PUBLIC LAW 86-192-AUG. 26, 1959
To supplement the Act of April 26, 1906 (34 Stat. 137)
Proof 7 - November 6, 1919 Eastern Band of North Carolina Self Terminates
Act June 4, 1924, ch. 253, 43 Stat. 376
Proof 8 - Wheeler-Howard Act, June 18, 1934 (The Indian Reorganization Act)
(48 Stat. 984), as amended (25 U.S.C. 461)
Proof 9 - Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act of 1936.
(49 Stat. 1967), as amended (25 U.S.C. 501-50925 U.S.C. 501-50925 U.S.C. 501-50925 U.S.C. 501-50925 U.S.C. 501-509)
Proof 10 - 1938 Fairfield Convention of the Clandestine Cherokee Nation General Convention
Proof 11 - 1970 Chief’s Act (Public Law 91-495)
Be Prepared to read the true history of the Codes and Statutes of the United States in dealing with the Five Civilized Tribes and the Eastern Band of Cherokee in North Carolina.
The only time opinion is presented in each of these proofs, is in the Editorial Assertion portion of each of the Proofs. The Editorial Assertions are typically using the Canons of Construction to bringing clarity to the Will of the Congress and the Original Intent of the Congress.
(C) This document was produced at the request of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on July 18, 2019, to document the History, Anthropology, Culture, Religion, and Archaeology of The Chickamauga Nation.