The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma is Bogus!
Banner from the CNOT Holiday website is a big lie.
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The Banner Lies, "The Cherokee Nation Is Still in the state of suspension as a governing entity, by the Curtis Act (Act of June 28, 1898), ch. 517, 30 Stat. 495. Section 28 of the Curtis Act provided that on July 1, 1898, "all tribal courts in Indian Territory shall be abolished, of course it could be said what Smith always claims "the Cherokee Nation is in full force and effect" and by the Congressional act he always mentions, and is actually a fact of the matter which is, the 1906 Five Tribes Restoration Act Which States: "The tribal governments are hereby extended indefinitely by Joint Resolution No. 7 of March 2, 1906, 34 Stat. 822, and by Section 28 of the Five Tribes Act of April 26, 1906, ch. 1876, 34 Stat. 148", and with out a jucicial system which makes for a complete government...

The Creeks were the first to face this problem in harjo V Kleppe, 420 F. Supp. 1110, 1118-1131 (D.D.C. 1976), aff'd 581 F.2d 949 (D.C. Cir. 1978), the court held that the Five Tribes Act of 1906 continued the executive and legislative authority of the Creek government under the Creek constitution of 1867, however, neither the Five Tribes Act of 1906 nor the Harjo decision revived the Creek tribal court system. If this is so for the Creek in federal Court, you can dang well be assured it is so for the Cherokee Nation as well who have not been to any court to date, nor been allowed as a special entity to restore their court system. The CNO court is a lie. And the ONLY means to have the Cherokee Nation to be an Active viable Government of the Cherokee people, would have been to have reorganized under the (OIWA) Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act, which they did not, nor have they done to this date.

Then to Imply that the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma is the Cherokee Nation is the big Lie, by the part of the banner that says this is the 56th Cherokee National Holiday implying the CNO is the Cherokee Nation. If the Cherokee Nation were revived and reorganized as the CNO which they could do, then, all would not be a big lie.

But as it is, and what the CNO is, the banner should look like this, and it should say this is the 32nd CNOT Holiday:


Read the material at these links Cherokee People and see why the bottom line is a big LIE, as well as what the CNOT picture  stands for!

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"Do this today so the children can do for themselves tomorrow."