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The Cherokee Nation Supreme Court upheld a constitutional amendment requiring all citizens of the Nation to have at least one Indian ancestor on the federally-authorized Dawes Rolls, effectively stripping citizenship from the so-called Freedmen, descendants of Cherokee slaves. The ruling affects roughly 2800 non-Indians who enrolled in the Nation between 2006 and 2007 under a March 2006 Supreme Court ruling. In March of 2007, the people of the Cherokee Nation voted to amend the Cherokee Constitution to only grant those with Indian ancestors on the Dawes rolls legal citizenship and voting rights. That amendment was challenged in lengthy battle through the courts, but Monday’s ruling upholds the amendment. Freedmen argue the Cherokee Treaty of 1866 with the US Government grants them citizenship, but the Court ruled it was actually an amendment to the Cherokee Constitution in 1866 that granted them citizenship, and the Treaty of 1866 simply stated that Freedmen and their descendants had to have equal rights as Native Cherokees. . Therefore, the Court ruled, the Cherokee Nation had the right in 2007 to amend its constitution again, revoking citizenship. But Freedmen say the ruling is hitting them hard. “I was totally surprised and shocked,” Freedmen descendant Waynetta Lawrie said. “I’ve known from the time that I was a little girl that we had Cherokee blood.” But after the Court’s ruling Monday Lawrie is no longer a Cherokee citizen. “I can’t trace back the lineage all the …