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I got a tremendous respect for my brother Floyd Mayweather. stand in solidarity with Kyrie .
I wish more black celebrity would stand up and speak the truth.
Most blacks celebrities are afraid of white supremacists. so they keep quiet are join white supremacist condemning Black people.#IStandWithKyrie .#BoycottNBA .#NoAntiBlackracism.#AntiBlackRacism . 
You cannot believe that #BlackLivesMatter if you support the disenfranchisement and targeted discrimination of Black Natives who descend from enslaved people owned by citizens of the Five Slaveholding Tribes. #NoAntiBlackRacism #NoJimCrowInIndianTerritory
This can either be active support of disenfranchisement and discrimination policies or silence on the issue after being informed about it. I have seen far too many Choctaws and Chickasaws post Black Lives matter memes while also supporting their racist tribal policies.
You cannot believe that Black Lives Matter and then support your own Indigenous nation disenrolling, discriminating against, and disenfranchising the descendants of the slaves they owned and built their wealth off of. Why do you think the Five Slaveholding Tribes still rank
Freedmen should not be treated as second class citizens or non-citizens in the nations our ancestors built and worked for for free and under violence as chattel slaves. Our ancestors were forced from our homelands in Africa, across the Middle Passage, to Native homelands in
the present-day US, across the Trail of Tears while in chains and facing the brunt of violence and labor on the Trail, to be forced into Oklahoma where they were further abused by their masters. They were later freed and treated as either non-citizens in their Indigenous nations
or second class citizens after being freed from bondage. We must honor their legacies and fight for our rights as Indigenous people. Our ancestors shed blood and paid the ultimate price for the Five Tribes, only to be disrespected and abused time and time again.
It’s pretty disappointing to see the people on #NativeTwitter who were posting about #BlackLivesMatter for exposure just a few months ago remain silent when there’s literal apartheid going on in some Indigenous Nations in this country. Freedmen deserve equality and we deserve
to be heard and respected. Right now, our petition only has 261 signatures, even though a pro-Freedmen person in the Secretary of the Interior position could really make an impact in Indian Country in Oklahoma. We need someone to hold these discriminatory tribes accountable.
It really only takes a few minutes to sign and share a petition but a lot of y’all would rather scroll past this. Please sign and share. I don’t want to have to go another year of having to tell my family we don’t qualify for citizenship in our tribes. change.org/p/debra-haalan…
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 are active Jim Crow policies. We must hold her accountable. change.org/p/debra-haalan…
As she is being considered for Secretary of the Interior, it is important to ensure that she supports Freedmen of the Five Tribes BEFORE entering office and that she will implement a plan for equality and integration while in office. Native representation is great but it should
not come at the cost of Black Native people’s tribal, civil, and human rights. Please sign and share the petition. She must stand against the immoral policies of the Five Tribes if she is to be considered for Secretary of the Interior.
There is modern-day Jim Crow in Indian Territory against Black descendants of slaves owned by Native masters. @RepDebHaaland has supported policies that will allow these policies to continue.
“We are being discriminated against by our own Nation because we are Black.”
“We are being discriminated against by our own Nation because we are Black.”
“Not because we’re Indians, but because we are Black, we have Black blood. We are counted every year for the money that they get for ALL the government programs and they vote us out every year of those programs.”
“Investigate our nation for the problem that they’re having right now with the Blackness of our skin and the crook in our hair. We ARE Seminoles and we will always be Seminoles. We were born Seminoles. We will die Seminoles and we stand with Seminole Nation.”
Yes, Native Americans in the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, Seminole, and Creek Nations owned slaves. Yes, members from these tribes fought on the side of the Confederacy in the Civil War. Yes, the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations continued to own slaves until 1866.
The Creek, Chickasaw, and Choctaw Nations deny the descendants of these documented slaves citizenship rights to this day. The Seminole Nation only allows for the descendants of their slaves to have partial citizenship rights.
This needs to be at the center of discussions of anti-Blackness in the United States. There are still four sovereign nations that we allocate federal funds towards that discriminate against the descendants of their slaves. And no one ever seems to mention this on national media
A reminder on this #IndigenousPeoplesDay #IndigenousPeoplesDay2020 that many Black Native people are not enrolled in their tribes of origin because of historical and current anti-Black citizenship policies.
In the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations, descendants of people of African descent enslaved by tribal members are actively excluded from citizenship rights and tribal programs due to our ancestors’ statuses as enslaved people. We were promised citizenship in the Treaty of 1866.
Are we not “Indigenous” because our tribes have broken their treaty promises of citizenship? To exclude us from Indigeneity is to affirm our tribes’ anti-Black policies and histories. For many programs today, in order to be considered Indigenous, one must be enrolled
Happy #IndigenousPeoplesDay! A reminder that there are many different groups of Black Native people within the United States and that often our ties to Indigenous Nations are through violence and slavery at the hands of Indigenous people. Our ancestors were resilient!
Not all relationships between Black and Native people were ones of mutual respect. Not all Native nations assisted runaway slaves. In fact, some Native nations—like the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations—recaptured and re-enslaved runaway slaves of African descent.
This doesn’t negate our Indigenous ancestry, but certainly complicates it. Our introduction to our tribes of origin was not through peace or mutual understanding, but through violence, forced labor, and forced migration on the Trail of Tears while enslaved.
This official Choctaw Nation supplemental guide for teaching about the McGirt v. Oklahoma decision is full of misinterpretations of the history, omits histories of Black people and Freedmen, and erases the Choctaw Nation’s clear history of anti-Blackness. (Thread)
First of all, in the official guide, the authors state that “If people who were not Choctaw tribal members respected Choctaw laws, they could visit the Choctaw Nation, work there, or even become Choctaw citizens,” in post-Removal Indian Territory.
This statement holds true if the individual in question was white or non-Black from another Indigenous tribe. However, Black people (both of Choctaw heritage and devoid of Choctaw heritage) were specifically barred from living in the Choctaw Nation boundaries if they were free.
#FreedmenHistorySpotlightSaturday: Sarah Rector
Did 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 million dollars in today’s dollars.
Did 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 million dollars in today’s dollars.
She made an income twice as high as President Woodrow Wilson in 1914. Her income and wealth got to be so high that the state of Oklahoma’s white-dominated legislature attempted to pass a law reclassifying Sarah Rector as white.
Further, following her acquisition of wealth, she received marriage proposals from white men in the United States and around the world, at a time when interracial marriage was illegal, and at a pre-pubescent age.
Where did her wealth come from?
Where did her wealth come from?
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 Trail of Tears with their masters during Indian Removal.
Once in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma, Choctaws continued owning slaves and slaves built much of the infrastructure in Indian Territory. Slaves rebelled. For example, many Choctaw slaves participated in the 1840 Slave Rebellion in the Cherokee Nation to escape bondage.
Slaves performed difficult labor under the threat of and with actual violence. The Choctaw Nation had slave patrols as well.
Correction: the Cherokee Slave Rebellion took place in 1842.
Correction: the Cherokee Slave Rebellion took place in 1842.
BREAKING: Chief Gary Batton of the @choctawnationOK wrote a letter to Speaker of the House @SpeakerPelosi in which he condemned @RepMaxineWaters for a recent move by Waters to advocate for Choctaw Freedmen rights per the Treaty of 1866.
In the letter, Chief Batton argues that the @choctawnationOK has the right to deny Freedmen of citizenship rights because their constitution—which was passed in 1983–outright excluded Freedmen from citizenship.
Freedmen descendants were the only descendants of tribal citizens (documented in the tribal census of 1885) who were barred from voting on the citizenship criteria of the nation in 1983.
A thread on the composition of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot by “Uncle” Wallis Willis and “Aunt” Minerva Willis, enslaved people of African descent owned by Britt Willis, a Choctaw citizen. (Thread)
“Uncle” Wallis Willis and “Aunt” Minerva Willis were owned by Britt Willis in Holly Springs, Mississippi and when Britt and his wife walked the Trail of Tears following the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit, Wallis and Minerva were amongst the 300 slaves they forced along the trail (1).
A side note here: Many people don’t know this, but thousands of enslaved people were forced to walk the Trail of Tears with their enslavers from the “Five Civilized Tribes” (Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole Nations). Painting in above tweet by Elizabeth Janes.
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 Chickasaw and Choctaw masters. They weren’t freed until 1866. #BlackLivesMatter (thread)
#Juneteenth is supposed to represent the day that all slaves in the United States were freed from bondage.
However, slaves in #IndianTerritory in present day #Oklahoma were exempt from the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments because they were owned by masters of separate sovereign nations. So they remained enslaved event after the 13th Amendment was passed.
