Choctaw & Chickasaw Descendants Black History Day 12
Argument Submitted by Douglas H. Johnston, Governor Chickasaw Nation
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Argument on behalf of the Chickasaw Nation against H.R. 19279, a proposed bill providing for the reopening of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Citizenship Rolls and for the transfer of the names of numerous persons from the Freedman Rolls to the rolls of Citizens by Blood of said tribes
The legislation proposed by H.R. 19279 has been brought to the attention of Congress at every session during the past few years, and full hearings have been had before he committees of Congress thereon on numerous occasions, but whenever it has been defeated, as it has been on every occasion, it appears again in another form at the next session and the arguments of its supporters are so invidious and they are so persistent in presenting them that it is feared if they go unchallenged now, the former investigations on these matters may be overlooked and the committee, or some of its members, may be convinced to the serious detriment of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes.
The bill now under consideration presents this matter in the broadest form in which it has ever been brought to the attention of Congress, and if passed would result in the reopening of the citizenship rolls of these two tribes and the enrollment of an incalculable number of persons who have, or might submit some proof that they have, a trace of Indian blood.
Editor's Note: the following documents were prepared and included in Equity Case 7071, which was filed approximately three years before these hearings and the testimony given by Governor Johnston, Chickasaw Nation in 1910. In addition there was a lawsuit working it's way through the "judicial system" known as Equity Case 7071, which included approximately 2,000 similar cases that petitioned to be transferred from the "freedmen roll" to the "citizen by blood roll."
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