DURANT, Okla. (KTEN) — Members of the Choctaw Nation will head to the polls next month for general and special tribal elections. Voters will decide races for Tribal Council Districts 4, 5, 7 ...

Get our newsletter! On March 23, 1847, at a meeting in the small town of Skullyville in Indian Territory, Major William Armstrong, the U.S. agent of the Choctaw Nation, took the floor to speak.

However, unlike the Choctaw, the Chickasaw Nation never recognized the people it held in slavery as citizens of the tribe. “They broke the treaty, they never gave citizenship to their Freedmen.

Starting in 1885, the Choctaw Nation had given citizenship to Freedmen descendants, but in 1983 the tribal nation adopted a constitution that restricted membership to those with Choctaw ancestors ...