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America's 2nd Largest Indian Tribe Expels Blacks

By NPR Staff
Published September 20, 2011 at 11:00 AM CDT
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Black Freedmen, who are descended from the slaves of Cherokee Indians, protest their expulsion on Sept. 2 outside a regional Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Muskogee, Okla. Marilyn Vann, in pink, is the president of the Descendants of Freedmen Association.
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