Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen

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  1. Закачен туит
    23.11.2020 г.

    Deb Haaland co-sponsored a bill that removed protections for Black descendants of enslaved people owned by members of the Five Slaveholding Tribes in 2019. In four of these tribes, there are active Jim Crow policies. We must hold her accountable.

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    5.01

    Found some truly stunning photographs of some “Choctaw women” (putting it in quotes because I’m not sure of their ages, they both look like they could still be underage). I colorized them on MyHeritage and wow! They are amazing. They’re both from between the 1890s and 1910s.

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    3.06

    CHOCTAW FREEDMEN to Get Consideration for Tribal Membership Constitutional Amendment Needed

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    Meanwhile, our tribal governments tried to include measures that would ensure as much land remained in the hands of tribal members as possible (except of course, some anti-Black Dawes policies that limited land distribution to Freedmen).

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    The actual goal with land allotments on the side of the federal government was to open up as much tribal land as humanly possible to ownership and settlement by white settlers.

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    Land allotments distributed to Freedmen and to other tribal members of the Five Slaveholding Tribes WERE NOT reparations. They were forced distributions of land to tribal members by the federal government in an attempt to undermine our tribes and dis-establish them.

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    2.06

    Buck fought the laws all the way to the OK Supreme Court, where he won in 1925, securing the ability for Greenwood’s citizens to begin the long process of rebuilding their once thriving community.

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    2.06

    John Hope Franklin was an intellectual giant who won the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1995 and published multiple acclaimed books, but he also edited his father B. C.'s autobiography, My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin. /End

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    2.06

    He became a preeminent scholar of African American history, teaching at universities like NC Central, Howard, Brooklyn College, and Chicago, before finishing his distinguished career back in Durham, NC at Duke University, where a center bears his name.

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    2.06

    If that name is familiar to you, it’s because John Hope Franklin went on to study at Fisk University, get a PhD from Harvard, serve under Thurgood Marshall in Brown v. Board, and fight for Civil Rights with the NAACP.

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    2.06

    Thanks for sticking with it. Now here’s the twist. Ten years before that historic victory, B. C. and his wife Molly welcomed a son whom they named after Buck’s law school mentor, John Hope.

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    2.06

    Buck Franklin also wrote a riveting 10 page eyewitness account to the terrorism that was only recently rediscovered in 2015. It’s now at the Smithsonian, where it was curated, in part, by his grandson John W. Franklin. Here’s a sample of a harrowing story:

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    2.06

    Though he witnessed horrific moments and lost the building where he practiced, B. C. survived the violence and immediately went to work defending other surviving families, setting up in a tent in the middle of the carnage and documenting their losses.

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    2.06

    Millie became a teacher/churchworker and David a prosperous rancher. Their son Buck was a star athlete and student who, after graduating from Dawes Boarding School, studied law at Roger Williams College in Nashville and then at Atlanta Baptist College (later Morehouse).

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    2.06

    Before that, David married Millie Colbert in Biloxie, MS in 1856. Millie was part Choctaw and spoke the language fluently. The two settled an allotment in the Chickasaw Nation, near Pauls Valley. For more on Choctaw and Chickasaw Freedmen and Women, follow

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    2.06

    Depending on how you reckon differences between memories and documents, David liberated himself from enslavement (either through purchasing his freedom or fleeing the Birney plantation) and later joined the Indian Home Guards in the 1864 to fight for the Union in the Civil War.

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    2.06

    Buck Franklin was born in 1879 on the Chickasaw Nation near (then) Homer, OK. His father David had been enslaved by the Birneys, a Chickasaw family that had come to southern OK in the 1830s as a part of the removal from their homelands in Tennessee.

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    2.06

    As I've begun this process of learning, Buck Colbert Franklin has captured my attention. Also known as B. C., the life of “the Amazing Buck Franklin" reveals so much not only about the Tulsa Massacre, but the many stories they never taught in 8th Grade Oklahoma History classes.

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    29.05

    Non indigenous allies if you can please donate to the residential school survivors society.

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    1.06

    Interesting story Rev. Turner told me about this sign: it’s the only marquee church sign in Tulsa b/c decades ago the city wouldn’t put street lamps in Greenwood. It addressed a safety concern. “We weren’t trying to be flashy,” he said. “We were just tired of being in the dark.”

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    1.06

    So many stories to unlearn and learn . . .

    Tulsa didn’t become “Black Wall Street” because a bunch of Black capitalists worked through Jim Crow to make a large amount of profit and found ways to build wealth in family units. Tulsa’s wealth was built off land allotments Afro-Indigenous people received from the federal govt
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