Maybe not. Membership on the rolls has always been by blood. If one is not blood linked, they are not a member. Plain and simple. The Creek roll is this way. I have to apply since I have found my GGGrandfather's info but my hubby and children have been on the rolls for years. They can get free medicine if we want to drive to Atmore.
The Cherokee, maybe I'm misreading this, are just saying "they ain't one of us". If so, they are correct. That's common sense, a commodity in short supply these days.
Do the Cherokee have the right to kick em off the Res.? That I don't know. I would think so.

Pam