In the latest development of the Muscogee Creek Nation v. City of Tulsa lawsuit, a civil rights attorney and Freedmen ...

TULSA, Okla. — The Descendants of Freedmen of the Five Tribes Association will hold their next public meeting on Saturday, ...

A U.S. District Court judge ruled Wednesday in favor of Cherokee Freedmen descendants, saying they have a right to tribal citizenship a decade after Cherokee Nation rescinded those rights.

Catch up quick: A Muscogee (Creek) Nation District Court in September ruled in favor of citizenship for two Freedmen descendants, paving the way for other descendants to seek citizenship.

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 ...

Mother-daughter beading duo and Cherokee Nation citizens Jennifer Saenz and Vicky Watson, along with designer Debbie Franklin ...

Simmons, along with the Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band (MCIFB) filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuit between the ...

The Freedmen's Bureau was never adequately funded ... These records are invaluable to historians, genealogists, and descendants of the formerly enslaved. “The records provide a wealth of ...