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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.
