An organization that educates and advocates for descendants of Freedmen who were formerly enslaved by the Five Tribes is ...

Seminole Nation Chief Lewis Johnson did not respond to requests for comment. Choctaw Nation Starting in 1885, the Choctaw Nation had given citizenship to Freedmen descendants, but in 1983 the tribal ...

Like many Freedmen descendants, Walton-Raji said her ancestors were both Black and Choctaw but were forced to enroll on the Dawes Rolls as a Freedmen only.