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Cherokees eject slave descendants Posted: Sunday, March 4, 2007 "Members of the Cherokee Nation of native Americans have voted to revoke tribal citizenship for descendants of black slaves the Cherokees once owned." "Slaves were held by a number of native American tribes and were freed after the Civil War in 1866." Full Article : news.bbc.co.uk Cherokee Tribe Faces Decision on Freedmen A federal court hearing Wednesday pits Native Americans against the descendants of African slaves once kept by tribal members. The Cherokee Nation has moved to expel the people known as Cherokee Freedmen. Full Article : npr.org Jim Crow and the Indians "Freedmen," blacks whose ancestors were enslaved by Cherokee and other tribes, are suing to become tribal citizens. But the tribes say they are ineligible because they don't have Indian blood. Full Article : salon.com Native Americans and African American slaves Individuals in some tribes owned African slaves; however, other tribes incorporated African Americans, slave or freemen, into the tribe. This custom among the Seminoles was part of the reason for the Seminole Wars where the Americans feared their slaves fleeing to the Indians. The Cherokee Freedmen, and tribes such as the Lumbee in North Carolina include African American ancestors. Full Article : wikipedia.org Descendants Of Freedmen Of The Five Civilized Tribes The increasing number of Europeans being adopted into the 5 nations through marriage to Indian women brought significant changes to the old tribal ways. These "Indians" brought enslaved individuals of African descent into the tribes, and eventually brought about the enacting of tribal constitutions and tribal acts restricting the rights of people of African descent to obtain citizenship in the tribes and to marry other tribal citizens, even though eventually, many of the individuals of African descent had Indian fathers who were tribal citizens. Eventually most of the tribes also had some restrictions against Free blacks living in the tribe. The tribe which treated the blacks with the greatest equality prior to the Civil War were the Seminoles. The vast majority of the slaves were owned by people who were whites adopted into the tribe or their children who were known as "mixed blood" tribal members. It must be pointed out that some of the "slaves" were only slaves on paper, since the US government had tried to stop large numbers of Free blacks from moving to the Indian territory with the Indian tribal members. Also, Free blacks, living in the tribes were often stolen by whites intruders and carried off to slaveholding states; some were recovered with great difficulty by the Indians, who were often the relatives of the stolen Free black. Full Article : freedmen5tribes.com |
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