Came the Campaign for the elections to be held , Chad Smith was campaigning hard, and Joe Byrd was a Candidate as well, even though there were all the charges and counter charges all during the supposed Crisis, this writer would rather have call it a dog an pony show, a total farce perpetrated up on Byrd by the Mankiller and Swimmer political Machine of CNO, Joe Byrd never faced any charges and was free an eligible to seek another term and he did. Chad Smith was to face an expose of a marital situation see the details here http://www.jalagi.org/twofamily.html that should have brought down his career as a Cherokee Politician but did not. I believe the reason was There was NO choice offered the Cherokee People that they felt was viable except for Smith and Byrd, and they were left with a choice of the lesser of two evils, and oddly enough Joe Byrd actually won the vote of the people living in the boundaries of the Cherokee Nation, but when the outland vote came in the outcome changed dramatically Smith won, and this is a scenario that holds with every election of the all New Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma that began in 1975, except for the election of 1987 when Wilma Mankiller won with a landslide of 82% of the vote inside and out.

In the very first year of Smith's tenure he set out to change the name of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma (CNO), to the Cherokee Nation, subtly at first while he was forging a con on the federal government, the Cherokee Nation was carried on the federal registry of recognize Indian nations and tribes as the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma the same as the title of their supposed Constitution of 1975 see it here http://www.jalagi.org/1975constitution.html . he had a phony publication done by a friend with a popular website, with a name change and a listing of several items from the revised Constitution not yet ratified as if they were law see it here http://www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net/Cherokee/CherokeeConstitutionConvention.htm and the same people altered the name of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma's Document and published it as if the name had been changed, as you can see in the one above it reads "Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma" In this one notice the word "of" is removed http://www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net/Cherokee/Constitution.htm, then to further show the attempted name change upon the Cherokee People and the world, we as members of the CNO are issued membership cards called a blue card, here you can see a picture of my first one issued in 1981 see it here, http://www.jalagi.org/bluecard2.jpg back in 2005 I decided to become a Keetoowah and to do that I had to turn in my CNO blue card, and after becoming a Keetoowah I went back to CNO and demanded my blue card back, they said aren’t you a Keetoowah now, I said that’s none of your business, I am a Cherokee and I want my blue card back, they finally said we can't do that we destroyed it, but we can issue a new one, and they did see it here http://www.jalagi.org/bluecard.jpg and if you will note the name change of the entity, though to date the, 99 Constitution is not approved by the BIA and the name of CNO is still the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. also note on the Signature line of both cards, it is kind of hard to read, but it says I am a Tribal Member not a Cherokee Nation Citizen...

Then to further show the Federal Government has not approved the Constitution as the Congressional act that includes Plenary control over Indian affairs that says the President or his designee will approve the business of Tribes, Nations etc., when the Constitution was submitted to the presidents designee for approval the BIA, they denied approval and sent back a list of the things wrong with the document which you can see here http://www.jalagi.org/probwith99con.html

But, CNO is determined it will rule the Congress of the United States, in 2003 an item was place on the ballot in the run-off Election of the CNO, that included the Removal of the Presidents approval of Cherokee business, which includes election laws, voting and constitutions, and amendments along with a ratification vote of the Document in question, it passed, the people were con into believing the Cherokee People can over rule the Congress of the U.S. the vote passed, but nothing was done, because they knew it was not legal, so in 2007 they added a vote for approval of the people to place the 99 revised Constitution in place retroactive to 2003 and called it the 2003 Constitution, again the people were conned, and the vote passed, there was a court challenge made as to the legality of the act, Chad Smiths majority controlled judges of the court ruled the election and the act was all legal, the one judge that Smith did not control wrote a dissenting opinion that is all telling of what the court is and has done, see it here http://www.jalagi.org/99con.pdf a simple reading of this will give you a clue what the majority ruling says. In 2003 the Freedmen filed a federal lawsuit against the BIA for allowing the CNO to conduct an election in 2003 where they as Cherokee Citizens were not allowed to vote you can see the suit here http://www.african-nativeamerican.com/chercase.htm supposed to be a hearing the 6th of May this year 2008, and hopefully a positive conclusion for this class of Cherokee people will be made. The judge issued a stay giving CNO a chance to allow the Freedmen to get registered and vote in the 2007 election that was to kick them out, Smith and cohorts perpetrated a hoax on the court, and hopefully the court will see this and act accordingly, the Freedmen were restricted in their registration and stalled so that very few actually got to vote. In the meantime the Congressional Black Caucus has gotten involved an has offered up a bill that will cut CNO'S federal funding just like they did to the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma for the exact same action, where they tried to kick out their Freedmen citizens, the feds shut off their funding and brought them to their knees, CNO is no different they should have to abide by law just like the Seminole, they are able to stall around on two fronts, number one being riches from the 8 casino's to fight with, and the number of CNO members in high places of the BIA such a Ross Swimmer, Pat Ragsdale, and his wife Paula, David Mullen an attorney, Phillip Viles an ex Justice in Chad’s court of the Cherokee and others. Hopefully Judge Kennedy Is not swayed by these factors, after all its a simple matter of law, and whether he will have the guts to carry out the law is to be seen, if not then it will be up the Congress of the U.S..

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