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Happy Birthday to iconic abolitionist, writer, and statesman Frederick Douglass. Because he was enslaved, he was never 100% sure of when his actual birthdate was, but knew it was in
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#BlackHistoryMonth Spotlight of #BlackSeminole John Horse (Juan Cavallo/Caballo). John Horse is best known for bravely escaping an “impenetrable” and “inescapable” St. Augustine fort, and for uniting Seminoles in the
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Just because someone’s family lived as a legally white person for generations, it does not mean that they are not Indigenous. Non-Black members of the Five Slaveholding Tribes we’re legally
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Many people don’t realize just how many Indigenous languages are/were spoken in the United States both prior to colonization and afterwards. Currently, there are 176 Indigenous languages spoken in the
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It’s important to understand that Freedmen of the Five Tribes have very unique records available to us. We know the names of our ancestors and their owners. We also know
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Oklahoma is the perfect example of race being a myth crafted to shift control of land and wealth into white communities. Because each individual Native person in the Five Tribes
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Deb Haaland co-sponsored a bill that removed protections for Black descendants of enslaved people owned by members of the Five Slaveholding Tribes in 2019. In four of these tribes, there
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During the Civil War, the Five Slaveholding Tribes aligned themselves with the Confederate States of America. In their treaties with the Confederacy, slavery was upheld and in the case of
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Black and Native solidarity will be so difficult and so complex because although both groups have committed harm against one another, Native tribes committed harms (like slavery, discrimination, and violence)
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A thread of federally-recognized tribe-enrolled possible nominees for Secretary of the Interior who have demonstrated their understanding of the Treaties of 1866 and the issues facing Freedmen of the Five
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Native Americans are not just an ethnicity, and they are not a race. They are a collection of several sovereign nations within the United States. They have treaties, constitutions, laws,
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During slavery, not every Native tribe was friendly to Black slaves. It’s an inaccurate portrayal of the history of chattel slavery to promote the myth of the friendly Native American
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