The Cherokee Freedmen are individuals, formerly enslaved in the Cherokee Nation and freed in 1863, and their descendants. They have African ancestry, and...

includes descendants of Cherokee Freedmen and Natchez Nation. As of 2024, over 466,000 people were enrolled in the Cherokee Nation. Headquartered in...

citizenship, the freedmen have argued that the Dawes Rolls were often inaccurate, recording as freedmen even those individuals who had partial Cherokee ancestry...

late 20th century, the Cherokee, Creek and Seminole nations tightened their rules for membership and at times excluded Freedmen who did not have at least...

Shawnee peoples, and, after the Civil War and emancipation of slaves, Cherokee Freedmen and their descendants. The nation was recognized as a sovereign government;...

Freedmen Association of Oklahoma currently represents the interests of freedmen descendants in both of these tribes. The freed people of the Cherokee...

persons listed on the Dawes Rolls as Indians by Blood. Cherokee Freedmen Choctaw Freedmen "Creek Freedmen" Archived 2013-08-25 at the Wayback Machine, Encyclopedia...

exclude Freedmen. On March 7, 2006, the Cherokee Nation Judicial Appeal Tribunal ruled that the Cherokee Freedmen were eligible for Cherokee citizenship...

a Cherokee Nation engineer and activist who is the first citizen of Freedmen descent to be appointed to a government commission within the Cherokee Nation...

decision could affect the similar case in which the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma excluded Cherokee Freedmen as members unless they could document a direct Native...

limited to second-class status. The Freedmen argue that the tribe has not honored the 1866 treaty. By 2021, only the Cherokee Nation had updated their constitution...

(Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole) were to be enumerated and registered by the US government. These counts also included the Freedmen...

Zambo Métis Cherokee Freedmen Creek Freedmen Choctaw Freedmen Miller, Ken (27 July 2022). "Oklahoma-based tribes say followed rules on Freedmen rights"....

1848–1884), Trustee for the Cherokee Freedmen of the Cherokee Nation and who brought suit on September 26, 1891, on behalf of the Cherokee nation against the United...

2021, Haaland approved the new constitution of the Cherokee Nation with protections for Cherokee Freedmen. In June 2021, Haaland announced the creation of...

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Crawford Goldsby (February 8, 1876 – March 17, 1896), also known by the alias Cherokee Bill, was an American outlaw. Responsible for the murders of eight men...

2017. Several Cherokee Freedmen who were owned by Ross kept his last name. One of his former slaves, Stick Ross, later served in the Cherokee Legislature...

Cherokee Freedmen and the Cherokee Nation. The Cherokee Nation voted in a referendum (from which the Freedmen were excluded) to exclude all Freedmen except...

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the United States. Cherokee Freedmen Cherokee removal Cherokee treaties Daniel Sabin Butrick (Buttrick), traveled with the Cherokee Nation on the Trail...

recognition of the Cherokee Nation. This was related to their voting to exclude Cherokee Freedmen as members of the tribe unless they had a Cherokee ancestor on...

in the Cherokee Nation unless approved by the Cherokee council or taxing residents of the Cherokee Nation; established that all Cherokee Freedmen and free...

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Retrieved August 19, 2023. Littlefield, Daniel F. Jr. (1978). The Cherokee Freedmen: From Emancipation to American Citizenship. Westport, CT: Greenwood...

membership to those freedmen who wanted to stay in tribal territory. The Cherokee Freedmen often had intermarried and some had Cherokee ancestry at the time...

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Sherman's wartime Order No. 15 and similar provisions included in the second Freedmen's Bureau bills. Some land redistribution occurred under military jurisdiction...

secretary of state of the Cherokee Nation, succeeding Tina Glory-Jordan. She joined the three-person Task Force on Cherokee Nation Freedmen participation in 2024...

listed on the 'DAWES ROLL' FINAL ROLLS OF CITIZENS AND FREEDMEN OF THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES, Cherokee Nation with a blood degree." Kim TallBear (Dakota)...