Mealey's (August 31, 2017, 1:15 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Descendants of black slaves once owned by Cherokee Indians have the right to citizenship in the Cherokee Nation based on an 1866 treaty that guarantees that extant descendants of the Cherokee freedmen will have “all the rights of native Cherokees,” which includes the right to citizenship in the tribe, a District of Columbia federal judge held Aug. 30 (The Cherokee Nation v. Raymond Nash, et al., No. 13-01313, D. D.C., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 139957)....