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Obama on Native Tribal Sovereignty, the Freedmen, & NAHASDA

Obama and CBC oppose the passage of NAHASDA “as is”

in a march 13, 2008 letter to senate majority leader harry reid, members of the congressional black caucus stated that “members of the cbc will not support, and will actively oppose passage of nahasda” unless the bill contains a “provision that would prevent the cherokee nation of oklahoma from receiving any benefits or funding” until they extended tribal membership to the freedmen. the letter contained the signatures of 35 cbc members, but not the signature of milky house hopeful senator barack obama. the native american community began raising questions all round an obama presidency that could potentially support cbc efforts to undermine the rights of tribal governments to determine their own membership.asked to clearly state his opinion on h.r. 2824, obama’s campaign issued the following communication:”tribal sovereignty must intermediate that the village to resolve inter-tribal disputes is the tribe itself. our domain has learned with tragic results that federal intervention in internal matters of indian tribes is rarely productive; failed policies such as allotment and termination grew out of efforts to second-guess native communities.”clinton and mccain websites have no specific links or information to go to original american peoples or issues, while senator obama’s campaign has a main verso link directly to his website for “first americans.” further, a look at all three candidates’ effort teams reveal that senator obama has a citizen american community outreach coordinator and a 30-member tribal steering council. if clinton and mccain have a native american presence on their competition teams, it is well obscured.

obama’s counteraction to diane watson’s legislation will undoubtedly be met with unease by those of his fellow members of the cbc that side with the cherokee freedmen, but obama appears to be no outlander to the cbc’s disaffections. last year, online political leaflet thehill.com reported on the cbc’s anger with obama about rejecting an request to dispute on fox talk, and added that “obama has irked fellow cbc members by failing to respond to a entreat made early pattern year that he manageress a fundraiser for the black caucus’s state action committee (pac). [senator hillary] clinton received a similar invite and quick followed by by headlining a cbc pac fundraiser in march of 2006.” perhaps this is why the cbc recruited hillary clinton and not barack obama to be the boarder speaker at their 37th annual legislative colloquium, prompting the washington times to speculate that the cbc was quietly trying to advocate her bid for the presidency.”tribal dominion should at any cost that the place to resolve inter-tribal disputes is the tribe itself,” obama said.”discrimination anywhere is intolerable, but the cherokee are dealing with this issue in both tribal and federal courts. as it stands, the rights of the cherokee freedmen are not being abrogated because there is an injunction in diggings that ensures the freedman’s rights to programs during the pendency of the lawsuit. i do not endorse efforts to undermine these judicial processes and impose a congressional solution. tribes have a right to be self governing and we need to respect that, nonetheless if we fall out, which i do in this occurrence. we must have restraint in asserting federal power in such circumstances.”

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