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These Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek Nations enslaved our ancestors and brought them on the Trail of Tears IN CHAINS and are now denying us citizenship, the right to vote, access to tribal funding programs, access to tribal cultural programs, access to tribal schools, etc.
The Seminole Nation enslaved the ancestors of Seminole Freedmen and tried to kick them out of their tribe. When that failed, they reluctantly relegated Seminole Freedmen to partial and unequal citizenship—counting them when requesting federal funds but then not allowing them to
access any tribal programs. Hmmm where have we seen this type of behavior before? Well, the Jim Crow South and the 3/5 Compromise. We cannot stand by and allow this behavior to continue to be funded by our federal tax dollars.
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
