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Black Freedmen are struggling for recognition as tribal citizens


Black Freedmen struggle for recognition as tribal citizens
200 years later, many of the descendants of Black slaves, known as Freedmen, are still fighting to be recognized by tribes that once owned their ancestors.
Author: Associated Press
Updated: 6:35 AM PDT May 1, 2021
As the U.S. faces a reckoning over its history of racism, some Native American tribal nations that once owned slaves also are grappling with their own mistreatment of Black people.
When Native American tribes were forced from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern United States to what is now Oklahoma in the 1800s known as the Trail of Tears thousands of Black slaves owned by tribal members also were removed and forced to provide manual labor along the way. Once in Oklahoma, slaves often toiled on plantation-style farms or were servants in tribal members homes. ....

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Black Freedmen struggle for recognition as tribal citizens


Black Freedmen struggle for recognition as tribal citizens
LeEtta Osborne-Sampson is pictured outside her home Monday, April 26, 2021, in Oklahoma City. Sampson-Osborn, a Seminole Freedman who has a tribal identification card and serves on the tribe s governing council, said when she went to the Indian Health Services clinic to get a vaccination in February, a worker at the clinic told her the Seminole Nation doesn t recognize Freedmen for health services. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) | 
Photo: AP
By SEAN MURPHY
Created: May 01, 2021 07:13 AM
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - As the U.S. faces a reckoning over its history of racism, some Native American tribal nations that once owned slaves also are grappling with their own mistreatment of Black people. ....

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Black Freedmen are struggling for recognition as tribal citizens


Black Freedmen struggle for recognition as tribal citizens
200 years later, many of the descendants of Black slaves, known as Freedmen, are still fighting to be recognized by tribes that once owned their ancestors.
Author: Associated Press
Updated: 9:35 AM EDT May 1, 2021
As the U.S. faces a reckoning over its history of racism, some Native American tribal nations that once owned slaves also are grappling with their own mistreatment of Black people.
When Native American tribes were forced from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern United States to what is now Oklahoma in the 1800s known as the Trail of Tears thousands of Black slaves owned by tribal members also were removed and forced to provide manual labor along the way. Once in Oklahoma, slaves often toiled on plantation-style farms or were servants in tribal members homes. ....

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