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The Muscogee (Creek) Nation, an Indigenous tribe in the American Southeast that enslaved Black people in the 1800s, continues to engage in a legal battle with descendants of enslaved families. The descendants, known as the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Freedmen, have been feuding with the tribe for decades as they seek full tribal membership, Axios reported.
A nontribal citizen was arrested under a Muscogee Nation cross-deputization agreement, but jail staff initially refused to accept the detainee, claiming it was against policy.
A dispute erupted this week between Lighthorse police officers from the Muscogee Nation and Okmulgee County jailers that led to one jailer facing a battery charge in tribal court.