The interracial aspect, with African-Americans represented in the cast, is valid since, as we know, when the Cherokees left Georgia, where they held African-American slaves, they brought their slaves with them to the Indian Territory, which later became Oklahoma. That issue, by the way, still boils today because new restitutions with the Cherokees are complicated by whether or not African-American descendants of the Cherokee slaves should or should not benefit from those restitutions. (Many Cherokees don't want to share with these descendants of their former slaves.)
That is fascinating. Thanks. |
