Hi, this is Kevin Fong. And before you get to the podcast you've downloaded, I just wanted to tell you about 13 minutes to the moon, which is available now.

It's the definitive story of the Apollo Moon landings as told to me by some of the people who made it happen.

That's 13 minutes to the Moon, a new podcast from the BBC World Service.

And I'll be back a little later to tell you more about it. We're in the government building.

We've come to the department for registration.

All around me at the moment people are being processed,

people are in the queue waiting to process their citizenship.

This is the BBC World Service.

I'm Tyopopula and this is Slavery's untold story. I'm in the Cherokee

Capitol building in Talaqua, Oklahoma. There's a dozen or so people here

waiting to make their case to be part of the historic Native American tribe.

The same tribe as depicted in popular culture of noble savages who range from the Appalachians

to the Plains of North Carolina back in the 18th century,

terrifying white settlers with their Wales and Tomahawks, at least if you believe

Hollywood movies. These are what's called our Dawes Rule. It was almost operated like a US

Census back in the early 1900s. Applicants have to trace their Cherokee

routes back to a strict list of names compiled between 1898 and 1914.

So this is your lineage here, Annie Pumpkin and this was the age when, so the age 15 is when she came on.

So your ancestor was the 18,881 to come on to this door's roll.

If you can show proof of your status in these well-thumb files, you can become

a citizen of the Cherokee Nation with voting rights, entitlements to subsidize services like

health care and education and opportunities to

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