#Freedmen

Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen

ChoctawFreedmen

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

Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen

ChoctawFreedmen

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

Daniel Heath Justice

justicedanielh

There's a huge amount of misunderstanding about the Dawes Rolls, but one important thing to recall is this: although allotment was forced on the Five Tribes, our base rolls were

JamesHeartfield

JamesHeartfield

This guy is a descendant of the liberated slaves who paid for the emancipation monument-indeed he says his great-great grandfather is the man sculpted with Lincoln. This really would be

Russell Cobb

scissortail74

1/ The #McGirt ruling should not come as a surprise to any Tulsan who owns property south of 244. It's literally on page one of the abstract to your property.

Tweety Foodsevelt

foodsevelt

The reason the GOP can’t win Black voters is because the one time a pol tried to figure out if they could (Jack Kemp) they yeeted him out of the

Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen

ChoctawFreedmen

Black enslaved people and their descendants were not and are not migrants, immigrants, settlers, or colonizers to the United States. Our ancestors were brought here against their will. They did

Erica Buddington ✨

ericabuddington

On this day... Answer key told me to approve only the following answers: -Once enslaved Black people (hostages) participated at all levels of government.-Funding of public schools for Black children-The

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: December 1, 1868. A young black former Union soldier named John Henry was among a group of convicts sent from Richmond to West Virginia to

Jemar Tisby

JemarTisby

#OTD: February 8, 1915 The 3-hour long blockbuster silent film “Birth of a Nation” debuts in Los Angeles. It was a white supremacist propaganda film that takes place during Reconstruction.

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zachary_bl

Instead of having statues and bases named in honor of Confederates, let’s have statues and bases named in honor of heroes like Robert Smalls. I’m sure many people know about

Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen

ChoctawFreedmen

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

Ed Creedy

edcreedy

John Benton touching on something in this latest column for @EvangelicalsNow that I think is so important.I might articulate these thoughts more fully in another medium shortly, but his plea

Spike Cohen

RealSpikeCohen

Today is Juneteenth, the day that Black slaves in Texas were informed that they were supposed to have already been emancipated two and a half years earlier.If this surprises you,

Katherine Crocker PhD supports #BLM

cricketcrocker

Hi non-Indigenous ecology/outdoors biology folks.I’m asking you to be careful in how you celebrate the DOI choice.Is it good that there’s finally an Indigenous person nominated to head that department?

Azie Dungey

AzieDee

With all the talk about Black Wall Street this is so important. They built wealth off of the land allotments they received from the federal govt as freedman of the

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