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Did you know that Freedmen of the Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek Nations could be fined up to $250,000 and could face up to 5 years in federal prison for creating traditional arts and crafts and selling them with our tribal labels or with Native labels? We are not able to
equally practice our traditional crafts or traditional ways, from arts and crafts (such as basket weaving, beading, quilt making, mat weaving, and bow making) to fishing and hunting, due to our ancestors’ African ancestry. This is one of the consequences of tribal Jim Crow laws.
These are some of the most fundamental rights that are afforded to Indigenous peoples, but because our tribes discriminate against us in seeking tribal citizenship, we are unable to equally participate in cultural ways and activities. #NoJimCrowInIndianTerritory
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
