And there has never been a vote on Citizenship as Smith claims untill this last time when he had on the ballot the BOGUS bill to kick out the Freedmen.

Sure the document called a Constitution in 1975, was ratified, but there was most certainly questions raised as to the legalities of the vote, as well as what I mentioned in the earlier post on another site on the illegalities of his election where i said: "Ross O. Swimmer was able to win the 1975 election for Principal Chief with 8120 Cherokees voted in this election and Ross O. Swimmer recieved around 1868 votes, which meant 6,252 Cherokees voted against him and yet he still won. BUT, the fact has to be, only by having fraudulent absentees ballots from California, the possibility that Ross O. Swimmer may have rigged the 1976 ratification vote cannot be dismissed out of hand either. According to Georgia Rae Leeds, in her doctorial dissertation for the University of Oklahoma History Department, an eye-witness reported to her that "Ross O. Swimmer and one of his supporters formulated plans to illegally rig the absentee votes by hand-carrying a large number of ballots California and mailing them from there." If Swimmer did, in fact, rig his own election, as sources say, then supposed malfeasance must suggest a pattern of deceptive behavior that could have easily led him to rig the ratification election process as well."

Smith said:

In 2001, the Cherokee Nation's highest court ruled that exclusion of descendants of freedmen and other non-Indians in 1975 was constitutional.
I, john the "Elder" Cornsilk Say!

Smith Lies some more, actually the CNOT Court ruled against Bernice Riggs under the cover of darkness The ruling was made in 1999 only a few months after the election of the weezle as Chief, and the abandonment of the case by her lawyer Kathy Carter White, for a lucrative position offered by Smith, most likely for the abandonment of the case, and Smith's appointment of Darrell Matlock to the court..

Mrs. Riggs was never notified of the ruling by her barrister, Kathy Carter-White, neither did the CNOT court notify her either. My son David was living in Tulsa in 2001 when he was notified , at which time promptly informed Mrs. Riggs, but it was all over then with no recourse.

Chad Said:

In 2003, the Cherokee people voted again on a new Constitution and affirmed that Cherokee citizens should be those of Cherokee, Shawnee and Delaware by blood, and to exclude descendants of freedmen and other non-Indians. However, in 2006, with new judges on the highest court, the court reversed itself and held that the 1975 and 2003 Constitution language was not clear enough to exclude descendants of freedmen and other non-Indians, and that the language for exclusion needed to be clearer.

I, john the "Elder" Cornsilk Say!

The lying Cheefee omit's a most important element in the saga of mis representation, and and twisting of words, a (little Truth).

True in 2003 the Cherokee People voted to ratify the 1999 version of the 1975 Constitution, and the BIA promptly notified CNOT, it would not approve the Document, and have not to this day.

In 2007, the CNOT fools got an amendment to the Constitution passed in the BOGUS election, of removing the Congressional Statute of presidential approval of the Cherokee constitution, elections, and election Laws, and at the same time retroactive to 2003 installed the BOGUS 1999 Revised Constitution. and if you will read Article IV Section 1, you will see the Criteria for Citizenship says exactly the Same thing as the 75, Once again the Freedmen are not mentioned because they are Cherokee, The others are mentioned because it must be noted they are Cherokee by adoption after the 1866 Treaty signing, and if you will read the 1866 Treaty you will see both parties knew what was coming it was made into law by agreement that friendly Indians could be settled in the Cherokee Nation, and that is what the Delaware Agreement of 1867, and Shawnee of 1869 is all about, NOT what Smith is trying to BS the world with!!

As for the Judges of the CNOT Court, they were not all new judges on the Court, ONLY Stacy Leeds was new, Remember Dowty Matlock and Viles if I remember correctly did the 99 Riggs Ruling, Stacy replace Viles, so she was the only new judge, what happen was Dowty evidently thought more of his career as a barrister than being a servant of the Smith Junta, any future major rulungs wil determine his status for sure, so he recanted his stupid ruling in the Riggs case and Concurred with Leeds as a majority in the Allen Ruling: Thus asserting the Freedmen were citizens of the Cherokee Nation before the 75 Constitution and most certainly were after its inception and are today.

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