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Oklahoma tribes testify at U S Senate hearing over Freedmen

Tribal leaders and ambassadors met in front of a U.S. Senate committee Wednesday to give their tribe’s official stances regarding the citizenship of Freedmen.

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Tribes to Confront Bias Against Descendants of Enslaved People

Tribes to Confront Bias Against Descendants of Enslaved People The Choctaw Nation and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma said they would consider granting citizenship to the Freedmen. David Hill, the principal chief of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, wrote to the tribe’s national council proposing town hall events and a period of public comment to discuss citizenship for Creek Freedmen.Credit.Chris Creese for The New York Times May 28, 2021Updated 1:17 p.m. ET With pressure growing from the Biden administration, two Native American tribes in Oklahoma have agreed to consider reversing their policies of denying citizenship to descendants of Black people who were enslaved by them before the Civil War.

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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
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Black Freedmen struggle for recognition as tribal citizens

Black Freedmen struggle for recognition as tribal citizens
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