MUSCOGEE CREEK TREATY 1866
“Persons of African descent…shall have and enjoy all the rights and privileges of native citizens, including an equal interest in the soil and national funds, and the laws of the said nation shall be equally binding upon and give equal protection to all such persons, and all others, of whatsoever race or color, who may be adopted as citizens or members of said tribe.”
MUSCOGEE CREEK ATTORNEY GENERAL 2022
Not so fast there, you African descended people. We didn't really MEAN IT.
Geri Wisner
Muscogee Creek AG
The BLACK WALL STREET TIMES has a very complete story on the hearing into the treaty violations against the slave descendants of the Confederate supporting Creek Nation still performing discrimination against African Americans who rightfully belong.
Excerpts:
As one of Five Tribes in Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) who enslaved people of African descent, the Muscogee Creek Nation (MCN) signed a treaty in 1866 with the U.S. government. The treaty required the tribe to give full citizenship rights to their melanin-rich relatives, both free and enslaved Black Creeks, and their descendants.
Yet in 1979, the MCN rewrote its constitution, effectively eliminating Black Creeks and their descendants from being recognized as tribal members. Today, those descendants are considered Creek Freedmen without any rights or benefits, and Thursday’s court hearing represented a push to eliminate the racial apartheid. Mr. Allen Mitchell
Creek Freedman
2009 Protest at
Pechanga in Temecula CA
For the last four decades, Black Creeks have fought for their rights. Attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons is a Black Creek descendant whose fourth great-grandfather helped negotiate the 1866 treaty. He argued on behalf of the plaintiffs.
“We were hoping that the discrimination would stop today with this hearing,” attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons told The Black Wall Street Times inside the courtroom shortly after the ruling. “Our judge said she’s not going to make that determination today. She’s going to take everything we studied under advisement, and she will issue a ruling.”
READ THE REST at the link above, to see RACISM in ACTION
It's time to #RightTheWrongs but let's bet the farm that the MCN Judge will kick this can down the road and NOT do the right thing.
Read how/why
1 comment:
Now that they’re disenrolled the tribe will demean and humiliate them into submission that is their method of operation
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