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Lawmakers threaten to withhold major funds from Native tribes over treatment of descendants of the enslaved. Chuck Hoskin Jr., the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, attended a hearing in Washington on Tuesday as a witness in support of equal tribal citizenship for the Freedmen, the descendants of Black people enslaved by some tribes.Credit.Brandon Thibodeaux for The New York Times July 27, 2021, 7:29 p.m. ET Members of Congress on Tuesday threatened to withhold tens of millions of dollars in federal funding from four Native American tribes in Oklahoma, adding to renewed public pressure to end policies that discriminate against descendants of Black people who were enslaved by the tribes before the Civil War.

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