MSNBC MSNBC Reports June 4, 2024 15:50:00
>> it's powerful to hear you talk about this, especially as you described your rich ancestral history. i imagine many of the plaintiffs share that. so, what benefits what these plaintiffs enjoy if they were granted that citizenship? >> number one, it would vindicate the rights of their fathers and their mothers and their grandmothers. we were creek citizens for hundreds of years, and then it was tripped from us in 1979. people like my grandmother, who died just two years ago at 87 years old, she spoke creek. she grew up on creek lands, increased reservations lands, and for that to be taken awa...