This is some of the best news I've heard in these parts for a long time.
And it's a long and complicated story, and one which would require a lot of history I'm too tired to relate. So suffice it to say, after years of grueling work and more than a few dirty tricks pulled on them, one Cherokee Nation member, David Cornsilk, and one Cherokee Freedman, Lucy Allen, just managed to get the tribal membership of the Cherokee Freedmen reinstated.
Of course, their reinstatement was helped along by the Freedmen and some righteous Cherokee Nation members. But the powers that be have fought this tooth and nail from day one, and pulled dirty tricks so rotten, they'd make Rove's head spin.
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