This podcast focuses on Moses Whitmire who was elected as a Trustee for Cherokee Freedmen in response to an act from the tribal council in 1883 that planned to exclude the Freedmen from the Nation in sharing in a  percapita payment that was being allocated to the Cherokee Nation.     Moses Whitmire was elected by the Freedmen to be their trustee and to travel to Washington to negotiage on their behalf. In an effort to secure an attorney he signed an agreement with two attorneys from St. Louis Missouri, and this led to a larger issues where he had unknowingly signed an agreement to pay the attorneys almost 30% of the funds going to the Nation.  His case began a centuries long case regarding Cherokee Freedmen and their treatment as full citizens.      As a trustee lawsuits arose against him and Whitmire filed counter-suits against the Cherokee Nation and the United States.  He set precedent for Freedmen and their many trips to Washington DC that would go on for more than a century.