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11 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Congresswoman @DebHaalandNM, we humbly ask you to please address the ongoing discrimination and disenfranchisement that Freedmen of the Five Slaveholding Tribes are currently facing within our tribes. You must stand up against anti-Black racism and uphold our treaty rights.
Our petition asking you to please formulate and implement a plan for full integration and equality in the Five Slaveholding Tribes currently has over 17,000 signatures. This is a completely grassroots and unpaid campaign on our part. We have raised awareness about our issues.
And over 17,000 people have felt passionate enough about the disgrace of our discrimination to sign our petition. We ask you to please address our concerns and right this wrong. Our ancestors were emancipated from chattel slavery over 150 years ago. We shouldn’t still be treated
differently because our ancestors were of African ancestry today, in 2020. Please stand up for us as Freedmen and support our justice claim.

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In this video @EliGrayson8, @MvskokeRez citizen, breaks down why he supports Deb Haaland’s nomination & believes that she must acknowledge Freedmen on record. He emphasizes the importance of acknowledging Freedmen & McGirt to uphold sovereignty & treaties.
“I am not in opposition to Deb Haaland’s nomination... because she is going to be the first Indigenous person to head the Department of Interior, she should be the first one to step in and do what’s right by the Freedmen because the treaties are important”
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Did you know that Freedmen of the Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek Nations could be fined up to $250,000 and could face up to 5 years in federal prison for creating traditional arts and crafts and selling them with our tribal labels or with Native labels? We are not able to
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I’m not sure why we should have any hope for white supremacists who commit violence today being held accountable when we still haven’t even held white supremacist terrorists who committed violence in the past accountable. No one has been charged for the Tulsa Race Massacre.
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