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18 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
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.
@Deb4CongressNM @RepDebHaaland’s choice to remove clauses requiring protections for Freedmen in line with treaty requirements would allow for this behavior to continue in Indian Country. #NoToJimCrowInIndianTerritory

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18 Nov
If @Deb4CongressNM does not change her position on Freedmen of the Five Tribes, she should immediately be disqualified from consideration for Secretary of Interior. Our rights are already under attack and she has a demonstrated history of undermining Freedmen in legislation.
Black Natives should not be the sacrificial lambs for “Native representation,” especially when we’re discussing issues as serious as tribal citizenship, COVID relief, housing assistance, etc. that non-Black/non-Freedmen tribal members have access to.
Think about this—do you really want the first Native woman on a US Presidential Cabinet to be known for her anti-Blackness in Indian Country? Because I promise you, if she continues to undermine Freedmen while Secretary of the Interior, we will make sure she is remembered for it.
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14 Nov
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
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13 Nov
A lot of Black people today spread misinformation about Tulsa—saying that Black people pulled themselves up through hard work and that Tulsa is an example of successful Black capitalism when in fact it’s an example of how government redistribution allowed for Black Oklahomans
to build capacities for independence and wealth-building. Tulsa is NOT an example of Black people overcoming apartheid with capitalism and hard work. It’s an example of Black unity around redistributed land allotments and Freedmen investing the profits they made off of those
land allotments they received from the federal government. But keep in mind that Tulsa only became a center of Black flourishing because the Creek Nation’s collective land was forcibly broken up into individual land allotments for tribal members.
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13 Nov
Tulsa didn’t become “Black Wall Street” because a bunch of Black capitalists worked through Jim Crow to make a large amount of profit and found ways to build wealth in family units. Tulsa’s wealth was built off land allotments Afro-Indigenous people received from the federal govt
In fact, most of the Black towns in Oklahoma were built on Freedmen’s land allotments and were developed by Freedmen from money they made from oil on their land or from building businesses on their land allotments.
We need to stop acting like Tulsa is some story about the success of Black capitalism or respectability politics. In fact, Oklahoma was so unique because Freedpeople of all genders and marital statuses from the Five Tribes received land allotments.
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13 Nov
A lot of y’all’s “Indigenous Faves” are anti-Black on the low 👀 and a lot of them are anti-Black in your face and are openly taking anti-Black actions and you watch in silence, knowing that Black Natives will likely be hurt by them moving up the political ladder.
I guess Indigenous representation doesn’t have to include protections for Black Indigenous folks. If @Deb4CongressNM gets appointed to Secretary of the Interior and makes Freedmen’s lives in Indian Territory worse or neglects us while in office, please remember you ignored our
warnings beforehand. We have been tweeting about this for awhile and many non-Black Natives with large platforms are actively ignoring her anti-Freedmen past. We need to call her out before she enters office.
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12 Nov
Representative @Deb4CongressNM has co-sponsored legislation undermining Black Freedmen of the Five Tribes. She co-sponsored legislation that REMOVED a past clause that called on the Five Tribes to follow the Treaties of 1866 and equally share housing resources with Freedmen.
We cannot allow for our “Native representation” to be anti-Black and undermine Black Natives—some of the most vulnerable people in Indian Country. Please, if you believe in her, hold her accountable for the legislation she co-sponsored and demand that she be an ally to Freedmen.
We cannot continuously be pushed to the side. Despite being citizens of the Seminole Nation, Black Seminole Freedmen are denied any of the resources that other Seminoles have. The clause in NAHASDA that was removed would have required Freedmen to have access to housing funds.
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