Into the Black Creeks Pushing for Tribal Citizenship | Into America Podcast – Ep. 82 | MSNBC

In 1979, the Muscogee Creek Nation passed a constitutional amendment that stripped Black members of their tribal citizenship. On this episode of Into America, host Trymaine Lee talks to Rhonda Grayson, a founding member of the Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band: a group of Black people working to preserve their families connection to the Creek Nation. They discuss her family’s Native American ancestry and her fight to be legally recognized as part of the Muscogee Creek Nation.

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Into the Black Creeks Pushing for Tribal Citizenship | Into America Podcast – Ep. 82 | MSNBC

12 comments

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    23 in education.
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    Highest number of homeless people.
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  3. People don’t realize that the 5 civilized tribes (Creeks, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw and Seminole) were considered “civilized” because they took on many of the Europeans ways that lived in Southern part of this country, including slavery. Many of the Chief-tons of these nations were mixed with whites and spoke English during antebellum era and had many slaves.
    Also, all of these tribes fought with the Confederacy during the civil war, except the Seminole Indians that to this day still include freeman as part of their tribe and their constituents.

  4. Let’s be real, the creek traveled with “black ” people westward true! This does not make you Creek alone! You would have Had to have an ancestor of creek heritage! However,Wanting reperations for suffering is a separate is issue. And warranted by all means.

  5. Have you guys heard of this NY Post article about some ex-VP kid? Is there any chance you guys are covering this in here? I need you to educate me on that matter.

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