News
In Oklahoma, Juneteenth highlights tribal slavery descendants’ fight for recognition and citizenship
they were never citizens of any nation,,” said Walton-Raji, who is also a co-founder of the Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen Association. Oklahoma became a state in 1907. The Chickasaw Nation did ...
In Oklahoma, Juneteenth highlights tribal slavery descendants’ fight for recognition and citizenship
Several tribes practiced slavery, and five in Oklahoma — The Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw ... Only one of those tribes, the Cherokee Nation, continues to fully grant the rights ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback