The impulse to give the freedmen confiscated plantation land so that they could establish economic independence to match their new liberty never got traction.
And then we began the appeal process and so the status today is that under that appeal process, non-Indian descendants of freedmen are citizens today in the Cherokee Nation.
And so what my bill is saying, you do what you want to do but you cannot get money through the Department of Interior as long as you're discriminating against the freedmen.
That would be one thing, but what we really - is confusing is that currently in our tribal courts, there's an appeal process for non-Indian freedmen descendants who are appealing their citizenship status.