Establishing such heritage would normally make it very difficult for the Cherokee Nation and state social services to agree to any non-Indian adoption and removal from the state.
Which is why I decided to learn more about their plight and our nation's legal and social response.
It was a bruising election season and it revealed that the nation is experiencing profound demographic and social changes.
The subject is Social Security, the nation's biggest, broadest and probably most successful social program.
Mandela urged nonviolent solutions to the South African government's political, economic and social oppression of the nation's black majority.
More than a social event, the carnival is an expression of belonging to a city, a social group and a nation.
His vision remained the dominant vision in American politics until Reagan told a nation weary of taxes, social programs and decaying legacies of the New Deal that seemed to lumber on without revision (with, to be fair, a twist of racially charged rhetoric about "welfare queens" and Cadillacs) that government is the problem, not the solution.
Both came to Washington full of rhetorical energy about the changes to be wrought in the social and economic structure of the nation.
To find out more about that I spoke to Liz Carter, a writer for the website Tea Leaf Nation, which follows and reports on activity in Chinese social media.
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Radio presenter Alan Dein, who conducted many of the interviews, said the graveyard contains "a great social history of Hampstead and the nation" with "so many intriguing people buried there".
All too often pundits and policymakers seek a single cause for social stratification when they should accept that in a nation where inequality in real monetary terms is increasing - and has been doing so for quite some time despite the so-called boom years - the reasons for being at the bottom of the heap are manifold.
Social proof and the idea of a nation as an imagined community.
When poverty is considered hopeless, America is condemned to permanent social division, becoming a nation of caste and class, divided by fences and gates and guards.
But he emphasized capital punishment has been around since the nation's founding and was well-established in law and social tradition.
From slavery to the civil rights movement, black social action offered the nation the opportunity -- and template -- for transforming democratic rhetoric into uplifting deeds that brought America closer to its founding principles.
The VCLA report provides important insight as to how service strengthens the social, civic, and economic fabric of our nation.
As is well known now, Nadya Suleman, a 33-year-old single mother of six surviving on food stamps and Social Security disability payments, gave birth to the nation's first set of octuplets on Jan. 26, bringing her total brood to 14.
The nation needs energetic young workers to spur the economy and support an ever-increasing social-welfare burden.
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In conclusion, with the uncertainty of Social Security and the lack of traditional pensions, we as a nation cannot afford to have poor or even good 401(k) plan.
Therefore, she embarked on a nation-wide coast-to-coast hunt for what, how, when and why of social entrepreneurship and engagement.
If anything, after the dot com, technology, and housing bubbles and financial system meltdown, the nation seems to be craving exactly the type of investment that Social Security represents.
Agricultural, Church-dominated economies were superseded by new forms of social organization--nascent nation states with central political institutions, urban, commercial economies and lay patronage of intellectual and cultural life.
This past weekend showed that the leftwing Social Democrats and Greens are gaining influence in what has become the most powerful decision making nation in the European Union.
Those insisting that it must still be the nation state, not the EU, that sets tax rates, tax policies, social policies, education and so on, are implicitly making the argument that people must still have the power of exit from the policies being proposed.
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They pay both income and Social Security taxes on their earnings, and they are helping to expand the general wealth of the nation.
Mr. Najib, a 59-year-old British-educated aristocrat, urged voters to stick with the National Front that has governed this resource-rich nation of 28 million uninterruptedly since independence from Britain in 1957 and which, under his stewardship, embarked on economic and social reforms to improve its competitiveness and boost incomes.
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