Interior Secretary Deb Haaland approved the Cherokee Nation’s constitution with protections for Freedmen yesterday, prompting calls from civil rights activists for her to work with other Native ...

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TULSA, Okla. — The Cherokee Nation announced its production company, Cherokee Film Productions, will be releasing a feature-length documentary about Cherokee Freedmen. “We will not shy away from the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — “When you know what you really are and you haven’t been embraced or acknowledged, it’s horrible,” says Kenneth Payton, a descendant of the Cherokee Freedmen, in the documentary By ...

The Cherokee Nation is pushing for jurisdiction over descendants of Freedmen who commit crimes. Freedmen are slaves once held by the tribe. At the same time, the Cherokee Nation is announcing its ...

The Cherokee Nation wants to educate others about the Cherokee Freedmen. The Cherokee Freedmen History Project is collecting stories, photographs, and memorabilia to share knowledge of the Freedmen to ...

A Cherokee citizen is making history this week. Marilyn Vann was appointed to the tribe’s Enivronmental Protection Commission. She’s the first descendant of Cherokee Freedmen, or slaves once owned by ...

The Cherokee Nation is collecting old documents, pictures, and artifacts from Cherokee Citizens of Freedmen descent. Freedmen were African American men and women who were formerly slaves of the tribe.

The Cherokee Nation recently came to a conclusion regarding the citizenship of a segment of its population, the Cherokee Freedmen, who are the descendants of Black people who were once enslaved by ...

On the same day that African American voters went to the polls to cast their ballots in North Carolina and Indiana, descendants of the former slaves of the Cherokee Nation (known as Freedmen) fought ...