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While some Indian tribes, notably the Coquille, allow same-sex marriage, the Cherokee and [[Navajo]] do not. <ref>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26344598/</ref> In 2006, a same-sex Cherokee pair in Oklahoma got married (although they never submitted the marriage certificate to government officials outside the tribe) and shortly afterward, the Cherokee Tribal council adopted a law banning same-sex marriage. <ref>
While some Indian tribes, notably the Coquille, allow same-sex marriage, the Cherokee and [[Navajo]] do not. <ref>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26344598/</ref> In 2006, a same-sex Cherokee pair in Oklahoma got married (although they never submitted the marriage certificate to government officials outside the tribe) and shortly afterward, the Cherokee Tribal council adopted a law banning same-sex marriage. <ref>
http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=&sc3=&id=79241</ref> <ref>http://www.redorbit.com/news/general/348373/top_us_indian_court_upholds_first_gay_marriage/index.html</ref>
http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=&sc3=&id=79241</ref> <ref>http://www.redorbit.com/news/general/348373/top_us_indian_court_upholds_first_gay_marriage/index.html</ref>
For racial reasons, in 2007 a group of [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] congressmen and congresswomen introduced a bill in the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]] to "terminate" the Cherokee Nation.<ref>http://www.tanasijournal.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=365&Itemid=1&ed=53</ref> The Democratic Party has long history of antipathy towards American Indians, most notably Democrat president [[Andrew Jackson]], who was responsible for the forced relocation of thousand of American Indians known as the "Trail of Tears."
==References==
==References==
==External Links==
==External Links==
*[http://www.cherokeehistory.com/ Cherokee Nation]
*http://www.cherokeehistory.com/
*[http://www.cherokee.org/ Cherokee.org]
*http://www.cherokee.org/
*[http://www.native-languages.org/cherokee.htm Cherokee language]
*http://www.native-languages.org/cherokee.htm
*[http://www.aboutcherokee.com/ About Cherokee]
*http://www.aboutcherokee.com/
== See also ==
== See also ==