MEDIA ABOUT THE CREEK FREEDMEN
Judge sides with US slave descendants in Indigenous citizenship dispute
Judge sides with US slave descendants in Indigenous citizenship dispute
Judge sides with US slave descendants in Indigenous citizenship dispute
28 Sep 2023 www.aljazeera.com/news
"In the United States, a judge for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation (MCN) has ruled in favour of citizenship for two descendants of Black slaves once owned by tribal members, potentially paving the way for hundreds of other descendants, known as freedmen.
Late on Wednesday, District Judge Denette Mouser, based in the tribe’s headquarters in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, sided with two Black Muscogee Nation freedmen, Rhonda Grayson and Jeff Kennedy, who sued the tribe’s citizenship board for denying their applications.
Mouser reversed the board’s decision and ordered it to reconsider the applications in accordance with the tribe’s Treaty of 1866, which provides that descendants of those listed on the Creek Freedmen Roll are eligible for tribal citizenship. "
Treaty with the Creeks, 1866
Judge sides with US slave descendants in Indigenous citizenship dispute
Judge sides with US slave descendants in Indigenous citizenship dispute
June 14, 1866. | 14 Stats., 785. | Ratified July 19, 1866. | Proclaimed Aug. 11, 1866.
Between the United States, represented by Dennis N. Cooley, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Elija Sells, superintendent of Indian affairs for the southern superintendency, and Col. Ely S. Parker, special commissioner, and the Creek Nation of Indians, represented by Ok-tars-sars-harjo, or Sands; Cow-e-to-me-co and Che-chu-chee, delegates at large, and D. N. McIntosh and James Smith, special delegates of the Southern Creeks.
[Treaty contains Preamble and 14 Articles.]
U.S. Supreme Court Case SANGO v. WILLIG 1926
Judge sides with US slave descendants in Indigenous citizenship dispute
U.S. Supreme Court Case SANGO v. WILLIG 1926
Emma Sango, enrolled as a Creek freedman as No. 4468, seeks by this action to recover her allotment conveyed by her June 24, 1904, to Perry McKay for a consideration of $ 1,800, and which was, by mesne conveyances, acquired by the defendant, William Willig.
Creek Indian Freedmen Disenrolled
Muscogee Creek Freedmen file lawsuit to restore citizenship
U.S. Supreme Court Case SANGO v. WILLIG 1926
The Creek nation began disenrolling freedmen tribal members in 1979.
Jeffrey D. Kennedy, Vice President of the Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band, said his people have been without tribal status since the Muscogee Creek Nation adopted a new tribal constitution in 1979 that disenrolled freedman descendants.
Glory in All Things Creek
Muscogee Creek Freedmen file lawsuit to restore citizenship
Muscogee Creek Freedmen file lawsuit to restore citizenship
Eli Grayson, a Creek citizen, is fascinated with Creek history which led him to some unexpected information about the Creek Nation, and his own family tree.
Muscogee Creek Freedmen file lawsuit to restore citizenship
Muscogee Creek Freedmen file lawsuit to restore citizenship
Muscogee Creek Freedmen file lawsuit to restore citizenship
Rhonda Grayson and Jeffery Kennedy filed a lawsuit complaint July 20, 2018 naming Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and Chief James Floyd of the Muscogee Creek Nation as defendants.
MCN citizens weigh in on Freedmen lawsuit
MCN citizens weigh in on Freedmen lawsuit
MCN citizens weigh in on Freedmen lawsuit
Creek Citizen discuss the treaty and complaints filed in court.