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25 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Loving this comment on our petition from a Choctaw citizen: “I recognize that they were not only enslaved, but were forced to travel the Trail of Tears with us to Indian territory. They were removed from their own homelands, then they were removed again from the Choctaw homelands
Their language and cultures were erased, beaten out of them, and they were made to adopt Choctaw ways.Then their Choctaw language and culture were erased and the tribe subsequently erased them as tribal citizens. It's time to end the erasure, and recognize Freedmen as full
citizens.”
Sign the petition if you haven’t already! change.org/p/debra-haalan…

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The reason why most Freedmen have not attempted to start separate Freedmen tribes from their original tribes is the same reason most Black Americans haven’t demanded a separate nation for Black Americans set apart from the US. We have historical, legal, and cultural ties
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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
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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…
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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…
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21 Nov
Just to be clear, removing protections for a group that is actively being denied citizenship rights or who is being treated as a second class citizen because of their race is not a “mistake.” @RepDebHaaland co-sponsored a bill that removed protections for Freedmen of the
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21 Nov
Just to be clear—we shouldn’t even have to be called Freedmen anymore. Our ancestors were freed from slavery over 150 years ago, but our tribes still label us that way 🤔 Even the Cherokee Nation, which accepts Freedmen as citizens, requires them to apply through a separate
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**dominant.
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