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James M Branum - יעקב מתתיהו ☮#Freedmen #Cherokee #Choctaw #Muscogee #Creek #Chickasaw #Seminole #Oklahoma #Indigenous #AfricanAmerican
Tribal citizens descended from slaves face disparate treatment
Federal reforms have made Native American health care and education programs more accessible to tribal citizens who are descended from slaves held by citizens of several tribal nations in Oklahoma. But Freedmen descendants still face barriers when exercising their rights. A report released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office ahead of Black History Month shows that enrolled Cherokee and Seminole Freedmen descendants are still sometimes asked for proof of “Indian blood” while seeking federal services. The Muscogee, Chickasaw and Choctaw nations deny their Freedmen descendants citizenship altogether.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/25/muscogee-creek-supreme-court-ruling
Very good news for the #Freedmen of the #Muskogee / #Creek Nation.
Now it is time for the #Chickasaw, and #Choctaw nations to grant their Freedmen citizenship rights, and for the #Seminole nation to lift their freedmen citizens from their current second-class citizenship status.
#Indigenous #NativeAmerican #FirstNations #Oklahoma #NativeAmericanLaw #IndianLaw
Paria sans portefeuille"Join Michael in his discussion with Professor #JusteneHillEdwards about her powerful new book, #SavingsAndTrust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank. Created after the Civil War, the #FreedmansBank was where tens of thousands of formerly enslaved people placed their savings only to have them stolen by corrupt white bankers."
#Freedmen #Reconstruction #ReconstructionEra #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #UShistory #RacialWealthGap #books @bookstodon @histodons
Book talk
"On February 10, 2025, historian #JusteneHillEdwards, was in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian. They discussed Edwards’ book, "#SavingsAndTrust: The Rise and Betrayal of the #FreedmansBank", a comprehensive account of the Freedman’s Bank and its depositors"
replay: https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/the-rise-and-betrayal-of-the-freedmans-bank/
#Reconstruction #ReconstructionEra #WarAgainstReconstruction #Freedmen #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #UShistory #RacialWealthGap #books @bookstodon @histodons
Reconstruction Robbery: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank
Historian Justene Hill Edwards will discuss her book, Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank, a comprehensive account of the Freedman’s Bank and its depositors. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.
James M Branum - יעקב מתתיהו ☮
Wokebloke for Democracy“I hope and pray that our Government will not listen to the ex-parte statements of the old rulers of these States, many of whom are still traitors at heart, and even now are seeking to grasp again the political power under the old flag...
It will be bad for the Freedmen if these men again get into power.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/06/40-acres-reconstruction-freedmen-bureau-stolen-land/?utm_source=mj-newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter-06-14-2024
#Slavery #Freedmen #Reparations #CivilWar
It will be bad for the Freedmen if these men again get into power.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/06/40-acres-reconstruction-freedmen-bureau-stolen-land/?utm_source=mj-newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter-06-14-2024
#Slavery #Freedmen #Reparations #CivilWar
Very appreciative of the #Cherokee Nation of #Oklahoma pushing so hard to ensure that the #Freedmen (descendants of formerly enslaved people w ho now are citizens of the tribe) enjoy equal protection under the law. This is such a marked change from the past.
#Law #NativeAmericanLaw #FirstNations #AfricanAmerican #Black #BlackIndigenous #BIPOC #OK
