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Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen

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8 Dec

A reminder that Blood Quantum requirements for citizenship—particularly within the context of slave-owning nations—is inherently anti-Black. You are placing certain descendants of slaves on a pedestal depending on if their ancestors were violently raped while in bondage.

Within the context of slave-owning Indigenous nations, such requirements are immoral, racist, and disgusting. Freedmen shouldn’t have to justify our place in our own nations based on whether or not our ancestors were raped by their Native American slave-owners.

We shouldn’t have to find DNA connections to “By Blood” cousins who descend from our ancestors’ slave-owners to justify our place in the nations that enslaved our ancestors and forced them to assimilate into their nations and perform free and coerced labor.

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Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen

@ChoctawFreedmen

7 Dec

During slavery, not every Native tribe was friendly to Black slaves. It’s an inaccurate portrayal of the history of chattel slavery to promote the myth of the friendly Native American assisting runaway slaves. At least five Native American nations owned Black chattel slaves.

Many more individual Native people and Native tribes assisted with rounding up, hunting, and re-enslaving runaway slaves. In fact, for many tribes this was a core part of their treaty agreements with the United States government.

Perpetuating this myth of the “friendly Native” assisting runaway slaves when actual slaves may very well had been afraid of encountering a Native American while running away, knowing that that person would have had a high chance of kidnapping and selling them back into bondage,

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Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen

@ChoctawFreedmen

7 Dec

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

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Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen

@ChoctawFreedmen

5 Dec

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Creek Freedmen were wrongly kicked out of the Muscogee Creek Nation in 1979, a tribe they had been citizens of since 1866, simply because their ancestors were Black Creeks and were placed on the Creek Roll by the federal employees in the Dawes Commission. @MCIFB1866Treaty

This grave injustice must be rectified and Creek Freedmen need their full rights restored within their Nation. They were promised equal citizenship and economic rights in the Treaty of 1866. Most of their ancestors were enslaved by tribal members and forced into the tribe through

enslavement. It’s wrong to now kick them out of their own tribe years later because of greed and anti-Blackness. This would be like descendants of American slaves being disenrolled as American citizens simply because their ancestors were Black and enslaved.

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Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen

@ChoctawFreedmen

1 Dec

Black enslaved people and their descendants were not and are not migrants, immigrants, settlers, or colonizers to the United States. Our ancestors were brought here against their will. They did not move here looking for a better life or to displace Indigenous people.

I say this because many Native Americans feel as though Black Americans are settlers or migrants, and we aren’t. I’ve had a Native person say to a group of Black Americans in a meeting in college that we should “go back to Africa.” But we really have nowhere to go there.

And for those of us whose ancestors were owned by Native Americans, such statements are even more hurtful. Native Americans bought and abused our displaced ancestors and used their free labor for profit. Telling us to “go back to Africa” in some anti-Black attempt at #LandBack

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Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen

@ChoctawFreedmen

1 Dec

The reason why we are pushing for our tribes to recognize us as full and equal citizens is because we recognize them as truly sovereign nations. As sovereign nations, they have specific human rights obligations to the descendants of the people they enslaved.

I know many people within Native sovereignty movements believe that sovereignty gives Indigenous nations a free pass to treat their members and non-members however they want, but that’s truly not how sovereignty works. When a sovereign nation makes a cognizant choice to harm

a group of people (specifically when that harm is so targeted based on race and ancestry), that nation has obligations. And other nations should be holding nations who are committing human rights abuses accountable. That means other Natives nations and the United States.

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