Don't know much about my history, but I find out more everyday. My grandmother is Choctaw. My grandmother side of the family reside In Louisiana. But my great great grandfather which was also Choctaw obtained 200 aces of land, which is owned by my family. But I love your video, and from TH-cam video I am learning so much.
My paternal grand parents were both choctaw from Alabama and some were enslaved but purchased 92 acres in Alabama during slavery so its true. My paternal grandmother was choctaw and blackfoot. My paternal grandfather was choctaw and black irish, never enslaved. My maternal grandparents were both cherokee and nottoway. I am cooper colored, curly hair. So we come in all colors.
@@Swc325 my grandma Muriel Maetin from chickasaw had red hair and her sister had dark hair and dark eyes. I think there is a conspiracy to erase our history so we are easier to control. But the spirits live on
My great-grandfather was full-blooded Choctaw born in 1860 in Oklahoma...moved to northern Mississippi on Indian Land...he died in 1958 in Chicago Illinois in the winter...I became a civil rights activist...everything was like a bad nightmare until the March on Washington...Freedom Summer in 1964 ect.
I am Choctaw (paternal) from Northern MS/Memphis. My father's family's surname was Walton/Johnson. His x2 grandmother lived in AR. I wish I knew which part of AR and her name. I traced them to Covington, TN and to OKC, OK where my x2 grandmother had land there with oil shell. The military allotted it somehow but it remained in the family until 1996. My father was kept away from his father and family so we have bits and pieces from my father's sister I found in 2007. Beautiful story!!! Love!!!!!!!
Some freedmen did have native blood but because of the one drop rule calling such a person a negro and only recognizing the African blood makes people believe this person has no rights to be called a native or be federally recognized. This video states That Sally Walton Was a freemen yet her father was Choctaw Indian. She is still of native descent regardless of laws that say otherwise, and should have been recognized as such.
What's worse is that many who weren't mixed at all were labeled outside their heritage just bc of their skin tone or hair texture. So it's always a mess when looking at US history.
Some good reading.Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage by William Loren Katz Though they have never appeared in a school text, Hollywood movie or a TV show of the Old West, Black Indians were there as sure as Sitting Bull, Davy Crockett and Geronimo. Their story began at the time of Columbus, ranged from North American forests to South American jungles, and the jewel-like islands of the Caribbean. The first freedom paths taken by runaway slaves led to Native American villages.
I purchased that book, and I absolutely approve of it and recommend people to buy this book and learn the true history of Afro American & Native American Indian relations.
“Race” and identity should not be an issue but is, and it’s absurd. Native Blood is Native Blood and people should not be denied there culture based on racist laws or thinking, African decent people lost twice, African culture, language, family name etc.… gone. Then denied, disbelieved, separated from their Native American culture, regard less of having Native blood, having Native culture, and some having Native language.
You can count me in that number. I am a first generation Californian. My people come from Grant and Hugo Oklahoma - straight out of Choctaw County. Our elders quietly acclimated to the West but never stopped telling us the stories, showing us how to cook, and even shaping the heads of our babies. They never whined or complained about all that was lost from both of their heritages - African and Choctaw.
Thank you so very much for sharing this beautiful story. My grand mother was born in Oklahoma before state hood in 1905 in Langston Oklahoma. Thanks again...
my mom dad side was choctaw Indians and their last names were Lewis ..so glad I found this viideo, and I'm sure Wallet would be proud of you for this blessing
My 5th great grandmother was Hannah Choctaw,married to William s Beam. She was born about 1750 then died in South Carolina. She was full Choctaw. But I cannot find out which tribe she came from.
Hotep!!! Sister Anji..from your neighbor. How great it is to see your family pics here. Brings back memories. I am still in my passion also. 4 genarations of Hardin Family..You know I am forwarding this youtube to my list here in Fort Smith, Arkansas and beyond..Much Love Queen
Great video. I know my family on mother's side are of descendants of the Choctaw Indians in Northeast Mississippi. Actually your grandma Sallie looks a lot like my grandmother who just passed 2 years ago. It would be great to know this part of my family's history
I really enjoyed listening to your story, in the past few years I have started researching my paternal grandmothers ancestry, I was told by my cousin who lived with her that my grandmother as born on a reservation in Arizona and was Native American,I am still researching, I have learned so much about NA history here and in Canada, I have also been very saddened to find out about the horrible way that NA were and are still being treated today,some tribes are living in poverty on reservations
That's why black natives we so much a joke because we already in our own country my grandmother is 95 years old and she always tell me that we part Indian from Alabama Indian word meeting Our Land
2016stormy coming from a full Blooded Denesuline Native of Canada. That’s because they’re lying. Real Natives have Warrior’s Spirit and Blood running through them. Only wannabes and culture vultures claim to be Native but it’s time to be a Native they run and hide. Shit, our ancestors first met the Europeans 500 years before Columbus and were fended off by the Natives and Inuits. You may know them the Vikings....
@@Swc325 There are 38 million Blacks here in the United States, but yet not one group of Afrocentric or Black Nationalists ever marches up to the white House and demand to be called Indians. I've seen a Black guy ask Bernie Sanders if he would helpt them get repatriations for their ancestors being enslaved, but not a mention about asking them to change their name to Indians. LOL
Greetings Family... I loved hearing this story. We just found out about a month ago that our Great-Great-Grandfather (last name Sexton) was on the Choctaw Nation Roll as a full Blood. We're from Louisiana, and it was always spoken about, but we didn't know for sure until now. We don't know what to do with this new information, but we're trying to figure it out as a family.
If your ancestor is in the Choctaw nation of Oklahoma as being of blood and not freedmen you can enroll but you wont be able to get access to leadership rolls and some programs. If you are in the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians you won't be able to apply because they require 1/2 blood quantum. If your family tree is accurate I say go for it :)
other tribes of indians always get the misconception that the whole tribe of choctaws had slaves, but it was told to me that only a small amount of choctaws had slaves, which was the the white looking ones, who were able to afford them because of their status of looking white, and were able to speak both choctaw and english.
The point of the statement is to illustrate that the laws and customs of the Five Slave Holding Tribes should not be lumped in with the notion that ALL Native American tribes have a "common history" or people of "one race." This notion that just because people got married despite the law prohibiting it is not the only issue when it comes to race and identity among the Five Tribes. That fact alone makes the notion that Natives and people of African descent got along without problems is nonsense.
Thank you for sharing. I just found that I'm related to Alfred Wade and my Choctaw family has a cemetery called Wadesville Cemetery and freedmen who travelled to California
There black men and women found a red hand of friendship and an accepting adoption system and culture. The sturdy offspring of Black-Indian marriages shaped the early days of the fur trade, added a new dimension to frontier diplomacy, and made a daring contribution to the fight for American liberty. Early Florida history was determined by a powerful African-Seminole alliance that fought the U.S. Army, Navy and Marines to a standstill for forty years.
Next time you are Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, in western Sequoya Country, you should drive downtown and read the historical marker. It will give you a good perspective of some of the more unmentioned life after the Trail of Tears. The marker is near the landing of the old bridge near the I40 memorial marker.
She looks like my grandmother too, whose Grandmother was full Chahta Indian. My grandmother told me stories about her from her childhood days n taught me a lot about natural herbs. I still use those old home remedies n have passed them down to my children.
Like other intrepid frontier people, these dark Americans braved every peril for a slice of the American Dream-freedom, a safe home, family happiness and a piece of one's own land. In the chronicles of the Americas their long, arduous quest for freedom is still a neglected chapter.
Good morning I would like to know how to I register with the Choctaw Nation? I have located my great grandmother in the federal census being born and raised on the Oklahoma Choctaw Reservation. Her name is Mittie Magdalene Walker.
Good info. My grands, story was also buried. This was strategy to claim the assets(land) from the heirs of these people set up to be "abandoned" due to our ignorance.
Nice tribute; beautifully done. Choctaw people sent blankets and money (and possibly maze) to the Irish Catholics during the famine (1845 -1852, although my dad said his ancestors told him it lasted longer than this "official" record). On behalf of my Irish ancestors, thank you.
Cherokee took their slaves with them on the Trail of Tears, just recently won the court case to kick them all off the reservation stating they were not on the Dawes Rolls, since slaves were property therefore they had no claim to tribal lands. Each tribe determines membership rules, since they are sovereign nations. Many Indian tribes have historically taken slaves from enemy tribes, but taking black slaves was a way for them to take on the white man ways. I do find it surprising that so few Americans have no clear understanding of slavery in this nation. My husband was raised by his Cherokee gram and grew up knowing about the slaves, even though his family managed to escape the Trail and hid, would not come out to get on the rolls of the Eastern tribe and therefore have no claim to membership. They have no issues with that.
Such a complicated story. It's full of nuance at every turn yet the Parasite Politicians want to boil it down to black/white. Videos like this,& comments like yours are more beneficial than any history textbook. Thank you
@@igorslocks as an update to my comment of 6 years ago, the black descendants of the original slaves finally won the right to remain on their lands that are within the western Cherokee reservation. The Cherokee members did agree to this. Of note is that many of the slaves married into members of the tribe (who were on the rolls from the Trail of Tears) and those decedents are tribal members, at least this is my understanding of the more recent ruling. I would welcome input from members of the western band of Cherokee. I imagine there are tribal laws that would still be in effect for those properties, such as those prohibiting sales of the properties in question as well as governance and policing remaining at the tribal level. A more recent history book, An Indigenous Peoples’ History Of The United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is well worth the time to read. Basically it moves beyond what the author refers to as “the Columbus myth” in exploring the rich legacy of the indigenous nations prior to the arrival of the European “squatters”. It includes 40 pages of suggested reading, works cited, and notes for those who wish to explore this history more fully.
@@farmwife7944 thanks for the book recommendation & some further context. I had lived in SE Oklahoma for awhile and worked for the Choctaw Housing Authority so the Trail of Tears & the 5 civilized tribes(I may be in the wrong here & I'm sorry if so but that description/term angers me & is so dehumanizing to Native populations as a whole IMO. But I have no Native Blood so that has to be taken into consideration.) I'll definitely check it out before the end of the year. Stay safe and God Bless ♥️
Man this is heart warming my FAMILY from Mississippi shaw my great grandmother was a slave my mom tell me enough to know who my PEOPLE are even pictures of my Grands are remarkable WE NEED ARE LAND SHOULD'VE EVEN B A ARGUMENT 🖤
Yes I know that African people where in enslaved by Native Americans. This is from a book about the relationship between native and African people manly the Seminoles and African people. I could not fit all the information in one post so I broke it up in to separate post. Of course there is more to it this was just a tid bit from the book. The book is called: Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage by William Loren Katz. To get a full understanding it needs to be read in full.
Hello. I am of Choctaw decent, and I am looking at the 4:53 mark of your video. It shows a document that states 'THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE'. Do you know exactly what that means ? Does it mean that the land is not transferable ? I ask this because I know that my ancestors were given an allotment of land, but it was sold off piece by piece by a man that my great great grandmother had married after the death of my great great grandfather, both of which were full bloods. I believe that the man she married was a white man, and not of Native American blood. I have wondered many times if it was lawful for him to sell the land.
Thank you for sharing. It's so fascinating... i cannot believe at age 38 I'm just now learning about this. Thank you for taking the time to do the research and bring this piece of our nation's history to light.
The problem with that mythology is the tribe enacted laws that legalized the institution of slavery, so by inference the entire nation condone the practice of a few. It was the law of the tribe that prohibited the intermarriage of people of African descent with people with "Indian blood." If your inference is that because a small percentage of people "practiced" the institution of chattel slavery somehow negates the entire institution of slavery within the tribe is without merit.
I was not lumping in the laws and customs. Just pointing out there are Native and African mixed people all over the US and people deny this based on hateful views and not based on actual fact. And of course there were many problems and issues; I never said there was not.
I am a PhD candidate in history, and my great-grandmother was 100% Choctaw (born on the Trail of Tears). My family knows very little of her, but my father's family is from Mississippi. As a historian and human, I have been trying to make connections through the Choctaw for years. As a historian and someone who is passionate about history, I want to know the stories of my (and these) people.
I would be curious about what you know about your ancestors. If you are certain your great grandmother was 100% Choctaw and born during the removal, there is a good chance she as a Dawes card because she would have been in her 60's or 70's circa 1898. If you have been trying to make connections through the Choctaws, what have you been doing and are you saying you have contacted the Choctaws for information or are you saying you have been trying to make connections through the available records, I'm not sure of what you mean. Just for the record, would you share with me, who your ancestors are and the name of your great-grandmother who was the 100% Choctaw? Clearly if you know her "blood quantum" the names of her parents are available for research as well.
Peace and Blessings, I am on the same page as well, my grandmother who is currently living at 96 told me since I was young that she was Choctaw, I have the Dawes roll number but no official card. She would have be my Great Great grandmother, her name was Susan Hampton Givens and she was 100% Choctaw as well, and my grandmother told me she met her when she was a kid. We need to work together and figure out our lineage, I have the marriage certificates and Census documents showing the township and locations.
Could it have been spelled Triplett? What were your grandparents names? I have a great great grandpa George Triplett of Oklahoma. His wife Margaret was born in a Choctaw hospital.
Could you help me Children are Choctaw as well from their grandmother from my ex-husband we have the paperwork but we can’t read the writing for travel role
This woman has got to be a relative. My family is in Arkansas, Louisiana and my grandmothers mother was Oklahoma Choctaw and are relatives are Waltons wow
Both my grandfather were of unkown decent. My aunt looked Indian and was from chickasaw ala and mississippi. The land my grandfather owned in ala was sold or was taken back by the feds.. I like to think I'm some part Choctaw even if its a small amount my heart is in the soil and the people and the stories and the music and one day I think the land will be returned to the original ones who spirits live on through us
Freedmen didn't necessary mean that a person was a slave. Where the document that she was 'brought' by someone or someone owned her. you don't have it. she wasn't a slave. you got some document from the 'Dawes commission'. The Dawes commission were formed mainly to issue land to people. They didn't check whether you were a slave or Free. This was just some classification.
With all due respect you have no idea what you are writing about. The documentation on enslaved people among the Choctaw Indians is without question and it didn't begin with the Dawes Commission. One source you can look to provide the enslavement of people of African descent is the Congressional Record Serial Set which is the verbatim Senate and House investigations and oral testimony that has been recorded since the time is was known as the American State Papers. Another source that people of African descent were held in bondage by the Five Slave Holding Tribes is held among the records of the National Archives and Record Administration aka NARA. Among those records is a set within Record Group 75 identified as the M234 Emigration records that preceded the Dawes Commission records by approximately 40-50 years. In these records those people enslaved by "Indians" were among the PROPERTY listed as slaves (male and female) that walked the so called "Trail of Tears." Sir it would be nice that people like you stop the sugar coating of the history of slavery among the Five Slave Holding Tribes and come up with some fictitious argument based on what you think or believe but has absolutely know basis in fact. When you make statements like you did you only provide shelter for those who want to run from this history and more importantly marginalize the history of my ancestors when you indicate they were something that is patently untrue. May I suggest you pick up a book and there are plenty on the subject if you can access the records I suggested to enlighten you on this subject so don't spread "fake history."
WRONG! They were enslaved people PERIOD! Read their oral interviews they refer to themselves as SLAVES!!! Read the Treaty of 1866, the Choctaw and Chickasaw referred to them as slaves AND without RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES of a Choctaw or Chickasaw CITIZEN! Stop promoting misinformation read the Congressional Record Serial Set and you will see numerous documents that were generated following the War of the Rebellion that clearly identified these people as slaves. Nothing is dependent on the Dawes Commission to establish this fact. Stop trying to protect Native Americans from the Five Slave Holding Tribes of their history of enslaving people of African descent. You disgrace their names and this history.
Actually a majority of the Freemen do have native blood, and some of the slaves traded where already mixed with Irish, English, Spanish or Portuguese. Like in this story at 2:04-2:06 says Sally father is Choctaw. There are many other story’s that are the same.
When she became a U.S. citizen she lost her rights of birth which exceeds civil rights. That is what put and has kept American Moors in servitude aganist their will. She was de-nationalize. The American Moors and all her tribes/ families will need to nationalize it is the one thing they have not done to receive right of estates. Ancestors were here on this American continent over 250,000 years before any other people the Nation under their National name has right to their estates not Blacks, Indians, Colored, African Americans. Those are slave labels that has exsisted since around the maybe 1800s those namrs are not ancient neither do it have any great significance. see rvbeypublications.com
I wish I could speak to you. My father is Choctaw Indian from Valliant Oklahoma and I would love too know more of my family. My grandmother his mother died giving birth to him so I was told. I have been too Valliant and I feel such a connection there. If you could please contact me and maybe put me on the right road to learning more about my family.
Interesting many of us AA have more Indian blood then we think. Search the Dawes Rolls and also any family members in the indian territories and you will find more. My ggg mother is choctaw from Mississippi and moved to OK. My gg father is supposedly half however his father died and I can't find him on the dawes rolls. I am going to try to register with Choctaw Nation after I get the documents to prove hertigage. MY ggg mother was born in the nation and label as black in the 1900 censuses but she is full blood choctaw on the Dawes Rolls
Love the African part of you.... It was a Black person who died first on American Revolution...and they have fought gallantly in EVERY WAR SINCE...they established Universities and Colleges. They changed life for ALL Americans when the Civil Rights Law was past...etc..etc... it seems to me Native Americans should be bragging about being black or if African descent. Stop worshipping at the "white" alter...some whites find it amusing that 2 great tribes want to be them...smh!!!
@@tarobinson7411 I am sorry you miss understand my post. I love all of me I am adopted and was always labeled black when I found out what my ancestry was trying to trace back my genealogy back to African I found ancestory and makeup. I never knew I had Native American until I found my grandma on the Dawes rolls. I can register for the Choctaw Nation. Once I read America John Oligby 1671 the lies disappeared blacks have been in America and also native to Americas as tribes once you read this you will see what they looked like and who they are us... blacks in America that fought in indian wars for their enslaved families to try to get them free.
What you need to understand is the policy of the nation influenced all of the life and people. When you try to separate these laws and customs from the lives of the people you do them an injustice. It was a direct result of these laws that prevented many people and their descendants the rights and privileges of citizenship, identity and a fluid history of ALL of their ancestors. You say you are Choctaw and Cherokee, than you should know better. Or is that why you skip over the true history?
Its sad that soo many people popularizing dane calloway for what hes doing instead of the information itself. But i will be buying this book. God bless everyone on their spiritual journey.
I was just suggesting a book for someone to read. This book was not focusing on Native and Slave relationships but the other alliances that occurred and they did occur, it is documented in historical documents.
I was wondering.In your research, did you ever come across a Chahta Lusa named Sallie Going, or her father Isom Going. I know! I should buy your book, but just in case.. I would be interesting to read about the Chahta man who owned her and your grandmother was beautiful woman
Our Louisa Ingram married a Sanders, and she and her family lived in Skullyille, and later Calhoun, I.T. She was always referred in our household as Louisa but the name was pronounced as: Loo- EYE-zah. Do you have more information about your Louisa?
@@angelasgardensense8128 I have a bunch but already see some discrepancies but still think there is a connection somehow. I have a picture and some records
@@angelasgardensense8128 Sam Walton is definitely my grandmother's grandfather. Sammie Jr. is my great grand uncle as well. I would love to link up. I have a picture I want you to see if my great grandmother is familiar to you
I just found out that my family was in the Choctaw tribe and creek tribe in alabama I am trying to find out more history about my family but I am having a difficulty. I do know that the map is flipped and reversed
At first I didn't want to respond to this line of reasoning because people who draw conclusions on the alleged relationship of African and Native people ignore the well documented history that this story deals with and that is people of African descent were enslaved by Native Americans. It was not in opposition to white slavery and the logic of that statement is beyond me. Quite frankly what you are stating is the myth that gets told over & over again but has absolutely no basis in reality.
To some degree we are in agreement, people of African descent lost at least twice! With that said many of the freedmen descendants who have a history among the 5 tribes have been disconnected from that history by force from the decisions of the tribes and Dawes Commission since 1866. It would be difficult for many to identify with the tribes and "their" culture because they have been living an "African-American" cultural mindset since that time. The NDN community now has a litmus test that...
I'm currently doing research into my family history, and I was able to find out my great great great great grandparents may have possibly came out of grenada, Mississippi. They traveled to Oklahoma were they land stake claimed an town that was featured in an 1975 article in ORBIT MAGAZINE called "the town that never was." That town was called LINCOLN IN LINCOLN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA named after Abraham Lincoln. There names were William House and Sylvia House whom also had an son named Teter House if anyone now's or has information that could further my search it would be greatly appreciated. I also have reason to believe they were full blooded Choctaw Indian and William may or may not have served in the civil war because when they came to Oklahoma Indian territory he was able to afford the stake claim documents of that costed $14 at the time and also purchase 160 acres at a little over $1 per acre. Story goes they were ex slaves and I don't know of slaves of that time that were capable of coming up with that type of money in those days.
That is part of my problem with such a statement; you are using the book and it's premise in response to a video that it is not germane which can be misleading at best and inaccurate to a fault. By giving the general statement of Native American as if the community was one people does not accurately tell the history of "tribes" like the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek and Seminole. Their history is much different and it does not reflect a relationship that is indicative of them as friends.
Everything you said is correct except for the Seminole tribe situation there history is more complex.By the way my relatives on my fathers mother and fathers side are Chickasaw Choctaw
beautiful life history, or in Sallies case herstory. Tim Tingle a Texas author, writel my favorite story about a river that seperated free from slave, and how when a madter sold a family aoart a Indian woman who had been taken home by a slave boy when they were kuds hunting berrues, hiw he once saved her, then she saved him. no hate, just pure love. these r the story's our youngsters need to know they came from hatred,... and slavery to freedoms,... through love,....fleeing hatred and bondage.
Anyone know a Muriel Martin from Chickasaw Alabama? All the land my grandfather owned was sold or taken and I need to know if any of the land can be returned for me and my new wifey and our future family we plan to make when I get her here from Iran
Through careful research and rare antique prints and photographs this book reveals how black and red people learned to live and work together in the Americas to oppose white oppression. Here is an American story that reveals a little-known aspect of our past and shatters some myths.
If as you say these relationships were in other tribes, why post here and leave the impression that was the case of the Five Slave Holding Tribes? Clearly that is not the history of these people. HOWEVER! even when there were relationships and children of African women and Native men, the children of THESE relationships were denied by the 5 Tribes as to have Indian blood or accepted as citizens of those tribes UNLESS the mother had "Indian" blood.
Interesting. However, you are missing a very important piece. Slave often meant "employee." and most slaves were own by their family. farm owners used to register thier family members to ensure that no one could take them in the event of their death. your grandmother got that land because she is blood related. not slave related.
My 5th great grandfather Thomas Nash sued the Cherokee of Oklahoma using the governments Old settlers treaty for the rights of freedman & Natives. Who didn't go with their tribes on the trail of tears.. He passed away was unable and to finish the suit that took years in court. But his son Benjamin Nash picked it up after his dad's passing and won. My DNA matches show that I have DNA relatives with the surname she just mention. Moore , Campbell, Johnson, Lewis , Coleman. Not in my direct line. ( I don't believe anyhow) but distant cousins sharing a grandparent.. My family also started out in Virginia, NC, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Florida. Thomas Nash was also known as one of the first 5 or 6 biggest Cattlemen in Texas. He traveled around alot throughout Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma. His daughter married my Bass grandfather whose line goes back to Jamestown, Virginia to my 11th great grandmother who was a Nansemond Native American. I too have a book written by a distant cousin on my line. Who was a Geanologist and the Bass Native blood is well documented through court records. My grandfather had wrote in a journal he kept of his marriage to my Nansemond 11th great grandmother ( copy of his journal can be viewed in Virginia museum) he also had his children My grandfather certified in the courts as white and Native Indian and free men. He had to because people were prejudice toward them thinking they were Black people. One of his son's was shot in the hand for trying to buy gun powder. They thought he was black. That ended up in court also. My Bass line goes back to 1616 during the colonization day. Thanks for sharing this information. I have heard that some relatives keep claiming Choctaw also. This might explain why.
Don't know much about my history, but I find out more everyday. My grandmother is Choctaw. My grandmother side of the family reside In Louisiana. But my great great grandfather which was also Choctaw obtained 200 aces of land, which is owned by my family. But I love your video, and from TH-cam video I am learning so much.
Yasmeen Wilson are your people jenna or clifton choctaw.
My paternal grand parents were both choctaw from Alabama and some were enslaved but purchased 92 acres in Alabama during slavery so its true. My paternal grandmother was choctaw and blackfoot. My paternal grandfather was choctaw and black irish, never enslaved. My maternal grandparents were both cherokee and nottoway. I am cooper colored, curly hair. So we come in all colors.
@@Swc325 my grandma Muriel Maetin from chickasaw had red hair and her sister had dark hair and dark eyes. I think there is a conspiracy to erase our history so we are easier to control. But the spirits live on
My grandmother was Choctaw also, we are the real native Americans 💔
If you're Choctaw of Louisiana then you're Choctaw-Creole
My great-grandfather was full-blooded Choctaw born in 1860 in Oklahoma...moved to northern Mississippi on Indian Land...he died in 1958 in Chicago Illinois in the winter...I became a civil rights activist...everything was like a bad nightmare until the March on Washington...Freedom Summer in 1964 ect.
I am Choctaw (paternal) from Northern MS/Memphis. My father's family's surname was Walton/Johnson. His x2 grandmother lived in AR. I wish I knew which part of AR and her name. I traced them to Covington, TN and to OKC, OK where my x2 grandmother had land there with oil shell. The military allotted it somehow but it remained in the family until 1996. My father was kept away from his father and family so we have bits and pieces from my father's sister I found in 2007.
Beautiful story!!! Love!!!!!!!
So much American history is untold! Thank you for this! Amazing!
Some freedmen did have native blood but because of the one drop rule calling such a person a negro and only recognizing the African blood makes people believe this person has no rights to be called a native or be federally recognized. This video states That Sally Walton Was a freemen yet her father was Choctaw Indian. She is still of native descent regardless of laws that say otherwise, and should have been recognized as such.
slickvalz -I agree! She is Choctaw not chactaw freedmen.
She definitely has Choctaw features & so beautiful. I would have loved 2 have seen her as a young woman.
What's worse is that many who weren't mixed at all were labeled outside their heritage just bc of their skin tone or hair texture. So it's always a mess when looking at US history.
Some good reading.Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage
by William Loren Katz
Though they have never appeared in a school text, Hollywood movie or a TV show of the Old West, Black Indians were there as sure as Sitting Bull, Davy Crockett and Geronimo. Their story began at the time of Columbus, ranged from North American forests to South American jungles, and the jewel-like islands of the Caribbean. The first freedom paths taken by runaway slaves led to Native American villages.
I purchased that book, and I absolutely approve of it and recommend people to buy this book and learn the true history of Afro American & Native American Indian relations.
“Race” and identity should not be an issue but is, and it’s absurd. Native Blood is Native Blood and people should not be denied there culture based on racist laws or thinking, African decent people lost twice, African culture, language, family name etc.… gone. Then denied, disbelieved, separated from their Native American culture, regard less of having Native blood, having Native culture, and some having Native language.
You can count me in that number. I am a first generation Californian. My people come from Grant and Hugo Oklahoma - straight out of Choctaw County. Our elders quietly acclimated to the West but never stopped telling us the stories, showing us how to cook, and even shaping the heads of our babies. They never whined or complained about all that was lost from both of their heritages - African and Choctaw.
@@linedanzer4302 Choctaw hadnt shaped the heads of their babies since the 1600's & Choctaw don't talk about that anymore.
Thank you for sharing this. It’s crazy that I find your video almost 10yrs later and it helped me.
I have to say...it's so good to see so many here with Chahta (Choctaw) roots. Halito!!! ❤
That was beautiful thank you so much for sharing your story because people should know this
Also your voice is incredibly soothing and your a wonderful story teller!
Thank you so very much for sharing this beautiful story. My grand mother was born in Oklahoma before state hood in 1905 in Langston Oklahoma. Thanks again...
my mom dad side was choctaw Indians and their last names were Lewis ..so glad I found this viideo, and I'm sure Wallet would be proud of you for this blessing
Hey, what state do your Lewis family come from. My Choctaw ancestors were Lewis and stayed around Madison county Mississippi.
My 5th great grandmother was Hannah Choctaw,married to William s Beam. She was born about 1750 then died in South Carolina. She was full Choctaw. But I cannot find out which tribe she came from.
Hotep!!! Sister Anji..from your neighbor. How great it is to see your family pics here. Brings back memories. I am still in my passion also. 4 genarations of Hardin Family..You know I am forwarding this youtube to my list here in Fort Smith, Arkansas and beyond..Much Love Queen
Great video. I know my family on mother's side are of descendants of the Choctaw Indians in Northeast Mississippi. Actually your grandma Sallie looks a lot like my grandmother who just passed 2 years ago. It would be great to know this part of my family's history
I really enjoyed listening to your story, in the past few years I have started researching my paternal grandmothers ancestry, I was told by my cousin who lived with her that my grandmother as born on a reservation in Arizona and was Native American,I am still researching, I have learned so much about NA history here and in Canada, I have also been very saddened to find out about the horrible way that NA were and are still being treated today,some tribes are living in poverty on reservations
That's why black natives we so much a joke because we already in our own country my grandmother is 95 years old and she always tell me that we part Indian from Alabama Indian word meeting Our Land
@@Swc325 Its been 20 years of crying and complaining Why don't Blacks tell the White people off and do something about it by now? Are you cowards?
2016stormy coming from a full Blooded Denesuline Native of Canada. That’s because they’re lying. Real Natives have Warrior’s Spirit and Blood running through them. Only wannabes and culture vultures claim to be Native but it’s time to be a Native they run and hide. Shit, our ancestors first met the Europeans 500 years before Columbus and were fended off by the Natives and Inuits. You may know them the Vikings....
@@Swc325 There are 38 million Blacks here in the United States, but yet not one group of Afrocentric or Black Nationalists ever marches up to the white House and demand to be called Indians. I've seen a Black guy ask Bernie Sanders if he would helpt them get repatriations for their ancestors being enslaved, but not a mention about asking them to change their name to Indians. LOL
EXACTLY!!! Mine told Me that I AM part Cherokee and West Indian... From Mississippi
delonzo83 wow deep stuff
Greetings Family... I loved hearing this story. We just found out about a month ago that our Great-Great-Grandfather (last name Sexton) was on the Choctaw Nation Roll as a full Blood. We're from Louisiana, and it was always spoken about, but we didn't know for sure until now.
We don't know what to do with this new information, but we're trying to figure it out as a family.
If your ancestor is in the Choctaw nation of Oklahoma as being of blood and not freedmen you can enroll but you wont be able to get access to leadership rolls and some programs. If you are in the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians you won't be able to apply because they require 1/2 blood quantum. If your family tree is accurate I say go for it :)
Sexton have ties to many tribes look into it ...
Oh wow! I'm Choctaw ...born in Chicago now living in Harlem!
My Grandmother Bertha Perkins us from Mississippi!
God Bless you! This is Amazing!
other tribes of indians always get the misconception that the whole tribe of choctaws had slaves, but it was told to me that only a small amount of choctaws had slaves, which was the the white looking ones, who were able to afford them because of their status of looking white, and were able to speak both choctaw and english.
Thank you for sharing this, it really helps me on my journey.
My great great grand mother choctaw from Oklahoma she traveled to Florida but pass on from there ,her daughter was brought to Haiti and had my mom
The point of the statement is to illustrate that the laws and customs of the Five Slave Holding Tribes should not be lumped in with the notion that ALL Native American tribes have a "common history" or people of "one race." This notion that just because people got married despite the law prohibiting it is not the only issue when it comes to race and identity among the Five Tribes. That fact alone makes the notion that Natives and people of African descent got along without problems is nonsense.
Amazing Angela! Thank you for sharing this video.
I would love to find out more about my Chickasaw family's history in Oklahoma.
Same🥰
Contact the Nation and if you have any role numbers it will help you find out more..
Thank you for sharing. I just found that I'm related to Alfred Wade and my Choctaw family has a cemetery called Wadesville Cemetery and freedmen who travelled to California
My two oldest daughters are on the Choctaw roll by way of there mother. However my Triple Great Grandmother was a full blood Chickasaw Indian.
There black men and women found a red hand of friendship and an accepting adoption system and culture. The sturdy offspring of Black-Indian marriages shaped the early days of the fur trade, added a new dimension to frontier diplomacy, and made a daring contribution to the fight for American liberty. Early Florida history was determined by a powerful African-Seminole alliance that fought the U.S. Army, Navy and Marines to a standstill for forty years.
Thank you. Excellent work
Next time you are Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, in western Sequoya Country, you should drive downtown and read the historical marker. It will give you a good perspective of some of the more unmentioned life after the Trail of Tears. The marker is near the landing of the old bridge near the I40 memorial marker.
Looks like my grandmother. We’re all family. My people are Lyle from Mississippi and Louisiana.
She looks like my grandmother too, whose Grandmother was full Chahta Indian. My grandmother told me stories about her from her childhood days n taught me a lot about natural herbs. I still use those old home remedies n have passed them down to my children.
We are from North Louisiana.
Thats not true even children were freedmen.
If you're Choctaw of Louisiana then you're Choctaw-Creole
@@ninpobudo3876 She looks my great grandfather who was Black and Choctaw from Natchitoches, Louisiana. Both of my great grandparents were Creoles.
Like other intrepid frontier people, these dark Americans braved every peril for a slice of the American Dream-freedom, a safe home, family happiness and a piece of one's own land. In the chronicles of the Americas their long, arduous quest for freedom is still a neglected chapter.
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Thank you for this information of Choctaw and Chickasaw. My Grandmother was born in Louisiana from Bennett and Mack. I want to learn more.
Good morning I would like to know how to I register with the Choctaw Nation? I have located my great grandmother in the federal census being born and raised on the Oklahoma Choctaw Reservation. Her name is Mittie Magdalene Walker.
When did Mittie live? (Also note--there was never a Choctaw reservation. It is the Choctaw Nation.) Was she on the Dawes Roll?
Thank you. We all need to be educated on this sad subject
This is so wonderfully done🙌 thank you for this video and sharing your story!! 💜💎
Appreciate you
love your story :-)
Good info. My grands, story was also buried. This was strategy to claim the assets(land) from the heirs of these people set up to be "abandoned" due to our ignorance.
Thank you so much for sharing this information. Love
Nice tribute; beautifully done. Choctaw people sent blankets and money (and possibly maze) to the Irish Catholics during the famine (1845 -1852, although my dad said his ancestors told him it lasted longer than this "official" record). On behalf of my Irish ancestors, thank you.
So what are some ways I can find this out ? Many of my elders have passed a way so I’m searching for my heritage !
Cherokee took their slaves with them on the Trail of Tears, just recently won the court case to kick them all off the reservation stating they were not on the Dawes Rolls, since slaves were property therefore they had no claim to tribal lands. Each tribe determines membership rules, since they are sovereign nations. Many Indian tribes have historically taken slaves from enemy tribes, but taking black slaves was a way for them to take on the white man ways. I do find it surprising that so few Americans have no clear understanding of slavery in this nation. My husband was raised by his Cherokee gram and grew up knowing about the slaves, even though his family managed to escape the Trail and hid, would not come out to get on the rolls of the Eastern tribe and therefore have no claim to membership. They have no issues with that.
Such a complicated story. It's full of nuance at every turn yet the Parasite Politicians want to boil it down to black/white. Videos like this,& comments like yours are more beneficial than any history textbook. Thank you
@@igorslocks as an update to my comment of 6 years ago, the black descendants of the original slaves finally won the right to remain on their lands that are within the western Cherokee reservation. The Cherokee members did agree to this. Of note is that many of the slaves married into members of the tribe (who were on the rolls from the Trail of Tears) and those decedents are tribal members, at least this is my understanding of the more recent ruling. I would welcome input from members of the western band of Cherokee. I imagine there are tribal laws that would still be in effect for those properties, such as those prohibiting sales of the properties in question as well as governance and policing remaining at the tribal level. A more recent history book, An Indigenous Peoples’ History Of The United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is well worth the time to read. Basically it moves beyond what the author refers to as “the Columbus myth” in exploring the rich legacy of the indigenous nations prior to the arrival of the European “squatters”. It includes 40 pages of suggested reading, works cited, and notes for those who wish to explore this history more fully.
@@farmwife7944 thanks for the book recommendation & some further context. I had lived in SE Oklahoma for awhile and worked for the Choctaw Housing Authority so the Trail of Tears & the 5 civilized tribes(I may be in the wrong here & I'm sorry if so but that description/term angers me & is so dehumanizing to Native populations as a whole IMO. But I have no Native Blood so that has to be taken into consideration.) I'll definitely check it out before the end of the year. Stay safe and God Bless ♥️
Man this is heart warming my FAMILY from Mississippi shaw my great grandmother was a slave my mom tell me enough to know who my PEOPLE are even pictures of my Grands are remarkable WE NEED ARE LAND SHOULD'VE EVEN B A ARGUMENT 🖤
I forgot to mention the reason I mention Maude Ann is because on the ledger I saw the Maudea.
Yes I know that African people where in enslaved by Native Americans. This is from a book about the relationship between native and African people manly the Seminoles and African people. I could not fit all the information in one post so I broke it up in to separate post. Of course there is more to it this was just a tid bit from the book. The book is called: Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage by William Loren Katz. To get a full understanding it needs to be read in full.
Hi there I found out a couple of yrs ago we were choctaw native and I'm seeing some of our family in your pictures.
would mind sharing who your family/ancestors are in the video
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Hello. I am of Choctaw decent, and I am looking at the 4:53 mark of your video. It shows a document that states 'THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE'. Do you know exactly what that means ? Does it mean that the land is not transferable ? I ask this because I know that my ancestors were given an allotment of land, but it was sold off piece by piece by a man that my great great grandmother had married after the death of my great great grandfather, both of which were full bloods. I believe that the man she married was a white man, and not of Native American blood. I have wondered many times if it was lawful for him to sell the land.
I think it would B a good book to read if U wrote a biography of Sallie Waltons life.
Thank you for sharing. It's so fascinating... i cannot believe at age 38 I'm just now learning about this. Thank you for taking the time to do the research and bring this piece of our nation's history to light.
Thank you so much. I love learning the whole truth.
The problem with that mythology is the tribe enacted laws that legalized the institution of slavery, so by inference the entire nation condone the practice of a few. It was the law of the tribe that prohibited the intermarriage of people of African descent with people with "Indian blood." If your inference is that because a small percentage of people "practiced" the institution of chattel slavery somehow negates the entire institution of slavery within the tribe is without merit.
I was not lumping in the laws and customs. Just pointing out there are Native and African mixed people all over the US and people deny this based on hateful views and not based on actual fact. And of course there were many problems and issues; I never said there was not.
I just now got why elders didn’t bring that up: I wouldn’t want my youngins to know about that life either.
I am a PhD candidate in history, and my great-grandmother was 100% Choctaw (born on the Trail of Tears). My family knows very little of her, but my father's family is from Mississippi. As a historian and human, I have been trying to make connections through the Choctaw for years. As a historian and someone who is passionate about history, I want to know the stories of my (and these) people.
I would be curious about what you know about your ancestors. If you are certain your great grandmother was 100% Choctaw and born during the removal, there is a good chance she as a Dawes card because she would have been in her 60's or 70's circa 1898.
If you have been trying to make connections through the Choctaws, what have you been doing and are you saying you have contacted the Choctaws for information or are you saying you have been trying to make connections through the available records, I'm not sure of what you mean.
Just for the record, would you share with me, who your ancestors are and the name of your great-grandmother who was the 100% Choctaw? Clearly if you know her "blood quantum" the names of her parents are available for research as well.
Peace and Blessings, I am on the same page as well, my grandmother who is currently living at 96 told me since I was young that she was Choctaw, I have the Dawes roll number but no official card. She would have be my Great Great grandmother, her name was Susan Hampton Givens and she was 100% Choctaw as well, and my grandmother told me she met her when she was a kid. We need to work together and figure out our lineage, I have the marriage certificates and Census documents showing the township and locations.
My Grandmother was a Choctaw Indian My Father father was a Apache what that make Me,love My People.
My great grandmother's mother was a Choctaw Indian. She married a white man with the last name of Tripplet in Oklahoma.
Could it have been spelled Triplett? What were your grandparents names? I have a great great grandpa George Triplett of Oklahoma. His wife Margaret was born in a Choctaw hospital.
Could you help me Children are Choctaw as well from their grandmother from my ex-husband we have the paperwork but we can’t read the writing for travel role
This woman has got to be a relative. My family is in Arkansas, Louisiana and my grandmothers mother was Oklahoma Choctaw and are relatives are Waltons wow
Both my grandfather were of unkown decent. My aunt looked Indian and was from chickasaw ala and mississippi. The land my grandfather owned in ala was sold or was taken back by the feds.. I like to think I'm some part Choctaw even if its a small amount my heart is in the soil and the people and the stories and the music and one day I think the land will be returned to the original ones who spirits live on through us
Freedmen didn't necessary mean that a person was a slave. Where the document that she was 'brought' by someone or someone owned her. you don't have it. she wasn't a slave. you got some document from the 'Dawes commission'. The Dawes commission were formed mainly to issue land to people. They didn't check whether you were a slave or Free. This was just some classification.
With all due respect you have no idea what you are writing about. The documentation on enslaved people among the Choctaw Indians is without question and it didn't begin with the Dawes Commission.
One source you can look to provide the enslavement of people of African descent is the Congressional Record Serial Set which is the verbatim Senate and House investigations and oral testimony that has been recorded since the time is was known as the American State Papers.
Another source that people of African descent were held in bondage by the Five Slave Holding Tribes is held among the records of the National Archives and Record Administration aka NARA. Among those records is a set within Record Group 75 identified as the M234 Emigration records that preceded the Dawes Commission records by approximately 40-50 years. In these records those people enslaved by "Indians" were among the PROPERTY listed as slaves (male and female) that walked the so called "Trail of Tears."
Sir it would be nice that people like you stop the sugar coating of the history of slavery among the Five Slave Holding Tribes and come up with some fictitious argument based on what you think or believe but has absolutely know basis in fact. When you make statements like you did you only provide shelter for those who want to run from this history and more importantly marginalize the history of my ancestors when you indicate they were something that is patently untrue.
May I suggest you pick up a book and there are plenty on the subject if you can access the records I suggested to enlighten you on this subject so don't spread "fake history."
WRONG! They were enslaved people PERIOD! Read their oral interviews they refer to themselves as SLAVES!!! Read the Treaty of 1866, the Choctaw and Chickasaw referred to them as slaves AND without RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES of a Choctaw or Chickasaw CITIZEN! Stop promoting misinformation read the Congressional Record Serial Set and you will see numerous documents that were generated following the War of the Rebellion that clearly identified these people as slaves. Nothing is dependent on the Dawes Commission to establish this fact. Stop trying to protect Native Americans from the Five Slave Holding Tribes of their history of enslaving people of African descent. You disgrace their names and this history.
Finding this helps me to know how my grandmother is black and Choctaw Indian mixed.
I love this great to find out about our past
I will be getting your book!
Actually a majority of the Freemen do have native blood, and some of the slaves traded where already mixed with Irish, English, Spanish or Portuguese. Like in this story at 2:04-2:06 says Sally father is Choctaw. There are many other story’s that are the same.
When she became a U.S. citizen she lost her rights of birth which exceeds civil rights. That is what put and has kept American Moors in servitude aganist their will. She was de-nationalize. The American Moors and all her tribes/ families will need to nationalize it is the one thing they have not done to receive right of estates. Ancestors were here on this American continent over 250,000 years before any other people the Nation under their National name has right to their estates not Blacks, Indians, Colored, African Americans. Those are slave labels that has exsisted since around the maybe 1800s those namrs are not ancient neither do it have any great significance. see rvbeypublications.com
I wish I could speak to you. My father is Choctaw Indian from Valliant Oklahoma and I would love too know more of my family. My grandmother his mother died giving birth to him so I was told. I have been too Valliant and I feel such a connection there. If you could please contact me and maybe put me on the right road to learning more about my family.
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Interesting many of us AA have more Indian blood then we think. Search the Dawes Rolls and also any family members in the indian territories and you will find more. My ggg mother is choctaw from Mississippi and moved to OK. My gg father is supposedly half however his father died and I can't find him on the dawes rolls. I am going to try to register with Choctaw Nation after I get the documents to prove hertigage. MY ggg mother was born in the nation and label as black in the 1900 censuses but she is full blood choctaw on the Dawes Rolls
Love the African part of you.... It was a Black person who died first on American Revolution...and they have fought gallantly in EVERY WAR SINCE...they established Universities and Colleges. They changed life for ALL Americans when the Civil Rights Law was past...etc..etc... it seems to me Native Americans should be bragging about being black or if African descent. Stop worshipping at the "white" alter...some whites find it amusing that 2 great tribes want to be them...smh!!!
@@tarobinson7411 I am sorry you miss understand my post. I love all of me I am adopted and was always labeled black when I found out what my ancestry was trying to trace back my genealogy back to African I found ancestory and makeup. I never knew I had Native American until I found my grandma on the Dawes rolls. I can register for the Choctaw Nation. Once I read America John Oligby 1671 the lies disappeared blacks have been in America and also native to Americas as tribes once you read this you will see what they looked like and who they are us... blacks in America that fought in indian wars for their enslaved families to try to get them free.
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What you need to understand is the policy of the nation influenced all of the life and people. When you try to separate these laws and customs from the lives of the people you do them an injustice. It was a direct result of these laws that prevented many people and their descendants the rights and privileges of citizenship, identity and a fluid history of ALL of their ancestors. You say you are Choctaw and Cherokee, than you should know better. Or is that why you skip over the true history?
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Its sad that soo many people popularizing dane calloway for what hes doing instead of the information itself. But i will be buying this book. God bless everyone on their spiritual journey.
I was just suggesting a book for someone to read. This book was not focusing on Native and Slave relationships but the other alliances that occurred and they did occur, it is documented in historical documents.
I was wondering.In your research, did you ever come across a Chahta Lusa named Sallie Going, or her father Isom Going. I know! I should buy your book, but just in case.. I would be interesting to read about the Chahta man who owned her and your grandmother was beautiful woman
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My great grandmother was in Sammuel Walton's house too. Her name is down as Louisa there but it ended up being Lueada
Our Louisa Ingram married a Sanders, and she and her family lived in Skullyille, and later Calhoun, I.T. She was always referred in our household as Louisa but the name was pronounced as: Loo- EYE-zah.
Do you have more information about your Louisa?
@@angelasgardensense8128 do you have an email address I can reach out to you through?
@@angelasgardensense8128 I have a bunch but already see some discrepancies but still think there is a connection somehow. I have a picture and some records
@@angelasgardensense8128 Sam Walton is definitely my grandmother's grandfather. Sammie Jr. is my great grand uncle as well. I would love to link up. I have a picture I want you to see if my great grandmother is familiar to you
@@lindsayblair5181 Drop your email I'm a Walton Freedmen
I wish I can know more about my great grandmother on my mom side .
What is preventing you from conducting research?
I just found out that my family was in the Choctaw tribe and creek tribe in alabama I am trying to find out more history about my family but I am having a difficulty. I do know that the map is flipped and reversed
MY LAST NAME on my dads side is PERRY!!! I just randomly watched this and his family is half choctaw!
Very interesting!
At first I didn't want to respond to this line of reasoning because people who draw conclusions on the alleged relationship of African and Native people ignore the well documented history that this story deals with and that is people of African descent were enslaved by Native Americans. It was not in opposition to white slavery and the logic of that statement is beyond me. Quite frankly what you are stating is the myth that gets told over & over again but has absolutely no basis in reality.
To some degree we are in agreement, people of African descent lost at least twice! With that said many of the freedmen descendants who have a history among the 5 tribes have been disconnected from that history by force from the decisions of the tribes and Dawes Commission since 1866. It would be difficult for many to identify with the tribes and "their" culture because they have been living an "African-American" cultural mindset since that time. The NDN community now has a litmus test that...
I'm currently doing research into my family history, and I was able to find out my great great great great grandparents may have possibly came out of grenada, Mississippi. They traveled to Oklahoma were they land stake claimed an town that was featured in an 1975 article in ORBIT MAGAZINE called "the town that never was." That town was called LINCOLN IN LINCOLN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA named after Abraham Lincoln. There names were William House and Sylvia House whom also had an son named Teter House if anyone now's or has information that could further my search it would be greatly appreciated. I also have reason to believe they were full blooded Choctaw Indian and William may or may not have served in the civil war because when they came to Oklahoma Indian territory he was able to afford the stake claim documents of that costed $14 at the time and also purchase 160 acres at a little over $1 per acre. Story goes they were ex slaves and I don't know of slaves of that time that were capable of coming up with that type of money in those days.
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That is part of my problem with such a statement; you are using the book and it's premise in response to a video that it is not germane which can be misleading at best and inaccurate to a fault. By giving the general statement of Native American as if the community was one people does not accurately tell the history of "tribes" like the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek and Seminole. Their history is much different and it does not reflect a relationship that is indicative of them as friends.
Everything you said is correct except for the Seminole tribe situation there history is more complex.By the way my relatives on my fathers mother and fathers side are Chickasaw Choctaw
My family is from the Willis family. Clifton Busby Willis
Very interesting,our family is from the Wichita Tribe
beautiful life history, or in Sallies case herstory. Tim Tingle a Texas author, writel my favorite story about a river that seperated free from slave, and how when a madter sold a family aoart a Indian woman who had been taken home by a slave boy when they were kuds hunting berrues, hiw he once saved her, then she saved him. no hate, just pure love. these r the story's our youngsters need to know they came from hatred,... and slavery to freedoms,... through love,....fleeing hatred and bondage.
Anyone know a Muriel Martin from Chickasaw Alabama? All the land my grandfather owned was sold or taken and I need to know if any of the land can be returned for me and my new wifey and our future family we plan to make when I get her here from Iran
Through careful research and rare antique prints and photographs this book reveals how black and red people learned to live and work together in the Americas to oppose white oppression. Here is an American story that reveals a little-known aspect of our past and shatters some myths.
My history, I'm of Creek descent.
If as you say these relationships were in other tribes, why post here and leave the impression that was the case of the Five Slave Holding Tribes? Clearly that is not the history of these people. HOWEVER! even when there were relationships and children of African women and Native men, the children of THESE relationships were denied by the 5 Tribes as to have Indian blood or accepted as citizens of those tribes UNLESS the mother had "Indian" blood.
My people both on mother and father side have Choctaw, Cherokee and Chickasaw bloodlines. I'm grateful we have the oral and written records.
Interesting. However, you are missing a very important piece. Slave often meant "employee." and most slaves were own by their family. farm owners used to register thier family members to ensure that no one could take them in the event of their death. your grandmother got that land because she is blood related. not slave related.
you cannot be that ignorant?
My 5th great grandfather Thomas Nash sued the Cherokee of Oklahoma using the governments Old settlers treaty for the rights of freedman & Natives. Who didn't go with their tribes on the trail of tears.. He passed away was unable and to finish the suit that took years in court. But his son Benjamin Nash picked it up after his dad's passing and won. My DNA matches show that I have DNA relatives with the surname she just mention. Moore , Campbell, Johnson, Lewis , Coleman. Not in my direct line. ( I don't believe anyhow) but distant cousins sharing a grandparent.. My family also started out in Virginia, NC, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Florida. Thomas Nash was also known as one of the first 5 or 6 biggest Cattlemen in Texas. He traveled around alot throughout Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma. His daughter married my Bass grandfather whose line goes back to Jamestown, Virginia to my 11th great grandmother who was a Nansemond Native American. I too have a book written by a distant cousin on my line. Who was a Geanologist and the Bass Native blood is well documented through court records. My grandfather had wrote in a journal he kept of his marriage to my Nansemond 11th great grandmother ( copy of his journal can be viewed in Virginia museum) he also had his children My grandfather certified in the courts as white and Native Indian and free men. He had to because people were prejudice toward them thinking they were Black people. One of his son's was shot in the hand for trying to buy gun powder. They thought he was black. That ended up in court also. My Bass line goes back to 1616 during the colonization day. Thanks for sharing this information. I have heard that some relatives keep claiming Choctaw also. This might explain why.
She was an Aboriginal American.
I just found out that my great grandma was choctaw oklahoma