#Freedmen

Chief Batton referred to Choctaw Freedmen as African Americans even though our ancestors didn’t live in the United States until 1907 and then tried to erase our existence to put
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Real tired of the Treaty Rights of Freedmen being treated as an internal tribal matter. The hypocrisy in using those same Treaties in government to government federal court decisions and
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If @Deb4CongressNM does not change her position on Freedmen of the Five Tribes, she should immediately be disqualified from consideration for Secretary of Interior. Our rights are already under attack
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Tulsa didn’t become “Black Wall Street” because a bunch of Black capitalists worked through Jim Crow to make a large amount of profit and found ways to build wealth in
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As we celebrate #Juneteenth , it is important to remember that not all slaves were freed on June 19th, 1865. In Indian Territory, Blck slaves continued to be owned by
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Pliny the Younger was invited to a dinner party in Rome in 97-8 AD. He then wrote a letter to tell his friend Avitus all about it:"It would be a
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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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The Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park was funded entirely by freedmen and women. They should have gone with Harriet Hosmer's design — which would have showed Abraham Lincoln flanked by
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A lot of y’all’s “Indigenous Faves” are anti-Black on the low and a lot of them are anti-Black in your face and are openly taking anti-Black actions and you
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Just in case anyone was unaware: the Choctaw Nation chose to legalize chattel slavery within the tribe. Tribal members owned slaves of African descent and many enslaved people walked the
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On this day, in Black history, Fisk Free Colored School (now Fisk Univ.) opened its doors in 1866–six months after the end of the Civil War. It’s the oldest higher
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How Black Americans Were Robbed of $66 Million & 14 Million Acres of Land[History Thread] March 3, 1865. President Abraham Lincoln & Congress creates the Freedmen's Bureau, formally known as
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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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#FreedmenHistorySpotlightSaturday: Sarah RectorDid you know that the richest Black person in the world in 1915 was a 10-11 year old Creek Freedgirl? By 1915, Sarah Rector was worth over $25.5
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1/15 You'll hear a lot of talk today about how what happened yesterday is extraordinary and antithetical to our history. It's important to reject that idea, not out of cynicism
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Who was the “Richest Black Girl in the America” in 1913? Who was the man that advised MLK to buy the bus company they were boycotting? Who founded the first
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