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Tribes to Confront Bias Against Descendants of Enslaved People The Choctaw Nation and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma said they would consider granting citizenship to the Freedmen. David Hill, the principal chief of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, wrote to the tribe’s national council proposing town hall events and a period of public comment to discuss citizenship for Creek Freedmen.Credit.Chris Creese for The New York Times May 28, 2021Updated 1:17 p.m. ET With pressure growing from the Biden administration, two Native American tribes in Oklahoma have agreed to consider reversing their policies of denying citizenship to descendants of Black people who were enslaved by them before the Civil War. ....
A century ago, hundreds of people died in a horrific eruption of racial violence in Tulsa. A team of researchers may have found a mass grave from the event. ....
0:56 The statement came shortly after The Lost Ogle website published a divorce petition Hunter filed last week. The petition says Hunter wished to dissolve his marriage with his wife, Cheryl, because of “irreconcilable” differences. The site alleges the filing is related to an extramarital affair between Hunter and a state government employee. Hunter has served as attorney general since 2017, when former Gov. Mary Fallin appointed him to replace Scott Pruitt. He played a major role in Oklahoma’s litigation against opioid distributors and represented the state in a recent U.S. Supreme Court case in which justices decided the Muscogee Creek Nation still has criminal jurisdiction over eastern Oklahoma land granted to them by treaty in the 1800s. ....
Remember you are all people and all people are you. Remember you are this universe and this universe is you. Remember all is in motion, is growing, is you.. ....
COOKEVILLE, Tennessee This small university town about 80 miles east of Nashville has joined the legion of other municipalities in the U.S. facing the issue of Native mascots used by school sports teams. On a pleasant Saturday afternoon, May 1, several dozen demonstrators led by Chiricahua Apache and Sayota Knight marched from the campus of Tennessee Tech University to the Putnam County Courthouse to hold a rally demanding the removal of the mascot name “redskins” by local Algood Middle School from its football and other athletic teams. On their way to the courthouse, the marchers chanted, “Hey, hey, ho ho, that racist mascot’s got to go,” “No hate in our state,” and “Change the name.” ....