Oct 16, 2017
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The Marc Steiner Show
The Fight For Representation: The Cherokee Freedman
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Oct. 16, 2017
The Marc Steiner Show
The Fight For Representation: The Cherokee Freedman
Sept. 1, 2017
Linking Arms, Marching Forward: Cherokee Nation Accepts Ruling on Freedmen
One chapter closes as another begins in centuries-old slave narrative in Indian country
Indian Country Today
Sept. 6, 2017
Her Ancestor Was a Slave to Cherokee Indians. Now She’s Applying to Be a Citizen of the Tribe
A landmark decision offers opportunity for healing between descendants of slaveholders and slaves.
Yes! Magazine
Honor the Treaties: Cherokee Freedmen Complicate Native Rights Mantra
"For those who know anything about Native Americans in this country, most are aware that the treaties they signed with the United States is what sets Native peoples apart from other ethnicities in the country. Yet, with so many of these historic pacts broken over time, it’s no surprise then that a popular mantra among Native American rights groups has been to “Honor the Treaties.”
And so it has been with great wonderment to witness the decades-long drama unfold about the Cherokee freedmen, a class of African-American citizenry in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma who risk losing their place in the tribe despite an 1866 treaty that promised their ancestors otherwise."
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