By Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, March 3, 2007; Page A01
VINITA, Okla. — J.D. Baldridge, 73, has official government documents showing him to be a descendant of a full-blood Cherokee. He has memories of a youth spent among Cherokee neighbors and kin, at tribal stomp dances and hog fries. He holds on to a fair amount of Cherokee vocabulary. ” Salali,” Baldridge says, his face creasing into a smile at the word. “Squirrel stew. Oh, that was good.”
What Baldridge, a retired Oklahoma county sheriff, also has is at least one black ancestor, a former slave of a Cherokee family. That could get Baldridge cast out of the tribe, along with thousands of others.
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European Americans United is still waiting for anti-White groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Anti Defamation League of B’nai Brith and even the Justice Department to “express their concern” or pointing out the ‘hate’ over the Cherokee Nations’ efforts at genetic and cultural preservation.