Descendants of people formerly enslaved by the Choctaw Nation are criticizing a Constitutional change by the tribe.

And the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma - Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee Creek, Cherokee and Seminole - are under pressure for excluding would-be tribal members with black bloodlines.

In one Tulsa, Oklahoma classroom, 74-year-old Sharon Mitchell is discovering ancient Egypt, feeling the pride of her ancestry. In another, 8-year-old twins are studying Black entrepreneurs ...

Several tribes practiced slavery, and five in Oklahoma ... director of the Oklahoma Indian Territory Museum of Black Creek Freedmen History. She traces her lineage to formerly enslaved people listed ...

It was President Jackson who first banished Native American tribes and the black people they enslaved to Oklahoma in service to the interests of white settlers.

Oklahoma's Own In Focus: Tribal Compacts, Task Forces, And Tags There have been ongoing disputes with tribes since the time Governor Sitt took office. Just this week, the Five Civilized Tribes of ...

Until 1970, the so-called Five Civilized Tribes—the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Seminole, Muscogee Creek, and Choctaw Nations—weren’t allowed to elect their own chiefs.

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA (KOKH) — The Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes announced that tribal members and citizens of the Cherokee Nation, Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma ...

TULSA, Okla. – The Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma is urging the Federal Communications Commission to approve proposed alert codes specifically for missing and endangered ...

But contrary to the imagery often depicted in history books, Black cowboys in Oklahoma have been around since the 1860s, and they were also on the trail of tears.