Hoskin says the law discriminates Cherokee citizens of Freedmen descent ... But some Black tribal members are still being ...

also known as Black Seminoles, Seminole Maroons, and Seminole Freedmen, were a community derived from Runaway slaves who integrated into American Indian culture. They were mostly Gullah fugitives ...

Oklahoma’s identity is built on the histories of both Native and Black people. Yet, for freedmen — descendants of Black individuals once enslaved by Native tribes — this identity has too ...