Whereas
Our Cherokee ancestors occupied a well known and documented portion of the now southeastern United States
and
Whereas we never gave up the title or rights to these lands willingly or without coercion
and
Whereas our lawfully elected leaders at the time of removal opposed such removal and encouraged whatever means necessary to oppose it and
Whereas they themselves fled the Capital of Echota To Red Clay in an attempt to prevent removal and
Whereas those who signed the treaties and policies prior to removal were not our clan mothers and were not our recognized leaders or officials
and
Whereas there were some Cherokee people who managed to evade being removed as a result of the Policies of President Andrew Jackson and during the administration of President Martin Van Buren, or those Cherokee who returned to our homeland as soon as they could do so and continued and continue to remain within our historic homeland’s borders
and
Whereas the United States Supreme Court upheld our rights as a Nation
and
Whereas upon our arrival in the then established Indian Territory, our leaders, including John Ross, met and denounced the removal action and declared the Cherokee People still retained the right to the historic homeland and
Whereas our people established whatever governments they could during the duration of the removal policy and there after including that of organized family gatherings, social structures, and even in some cases, going to the extreme of attempting to establish state or federal recognized and non recognized tribal entities
and
Whereas we affirm and declare that we are documented descendants of historically defined Cherokee ancestors
We Affirm that we are indeed the rightful heirs to our historic homeland and that We are a Nation of survivors of an attempt at the annihilation of our people, carnage directed against our culture, decimation, ethnic cleansing, genocide, holocaust conditions, mass executions, mass murder of our helpless children and elderly people, massacre, race extermination policies and attempted slaughter.
We affirm that we have documented our link to verified historical records identifying Cherokee ancestors.
We affirm that we have the right to declare that we governed ourselves to the fullest extent that we were allowed by an oppressive society in as much as we were treated as less than prisoners of war,
We affirm that we maintained a society of sub chiefs and communities throughout our history,
We affirm the right of descendants to research what was taken from them by the vagaries of memory, the loss of stable structures and in some cases the wilful manipulation of the facts
Therefore, the primary purpose of the Constitutional Cherokee is to discover, to document and to re-unite all Cherokee people by uniting their descendants into one self- governing organization within our historic homeland so that we may reclaim our language, culture, identity and customs and preserve these along with our homeland that they may be passed along to our children and their children forever.
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