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A tribal judge for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma last week ruled that two lineal descendants of Black people who were enslaved by the tribe, known as Freedmen, are eligible for tribal citizenship. As the Civil War drew closer, the tribe was split; A portion of the Nation allied with the Confederacy and the other allied with the Union.
"You never hear those stories of people of African descent who also traveled, so it was important to me because my ancestors also traveled the Trail of Tears."
The judge for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma ruled that the tribe had violated an 1866 treaty by barring descendants of slaves from being tribal citizens.
Two Creek Freedman descendants are fighting to get citizenship rights in the Muscogee Creek Nation. Today marks the first day of their trial against the Muscogee Nation’s Citizenship Board.
The plaintiff’s suing the Muscogee Creek Nation Citizenship Board for citizenship were back in court Tuesday afternoon. Attorneys for the pair say they weren’t given all the discovery information.
africa, if you were female, you got 160 acres. the freedmen allotments totaled 1,192,240 acres. 1,100,000. i really want people to understand that. that's a lot of land for a small geographical area. it's a lot of land to own. >> as a descendant of a creek freedman, i believe land is power. land is wealth. land is really the core of black entrepreneurship. >> you had two types of blacks in oklahoma. you had those freedmen. then you had state blacks. state blacks came to oklahoma looking for the promised land.
land meant survival. there were 40 other black townships around oklahoma. the whole state, not just tulsa, the whole state was becoming the dream land. >> it was the promised land for a lot of people coming out of slavery, wanting to escape lynchings and wanted to just erase their families and a loving community. >> freedman had all of this land with mineral rights that ultimately made them wealthy. >> with ourselves in oklahoma in 1906.