LeEtta Osborne-Sampson is pictured outside her home Monday, April 26, 2021, in Oklahoma City. Sampson-Osborn, a Seminole Freedman who has a tribal identification card and serves on the tribe's governing council, said when she went to the Indian Health Services clinic to get a vaccination in February, a worker at the clinic told her the Seminole Nation doesn't recognize Freedmen for health services.
last year by a Minneapolis police officer spurred a reexamination of the vestiges of slavery in the U.S.The Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee and Seminole nations were referred to historically as the Five Civilized Tribes, or Five Tribes, by European settlers because they often assimilated into the settlers' culture, adopting their style of dress and religion, and even owning slaves.
When the federal government sought to break up tribal reservations into individual allotments after the Civil War, they created two separate tribal rolls — one for members with American Indian blood and one for Freedmen. In many cases, tribal citizens who appeared Black were placed on the Freedmen rolls, even if they had blood ties to the tribe.
“So, I left,” said Osborne-Sampson. “Even the worst person would try to help when there’s a pandemic all over the world, but they don’t care about the Freedmen. I feel like they want us to die.” “To be clear, the Seminole Nation does not operate the Wewoka Indian Health Services clinic, has absolutely no policy oversight and was in no way involved with administering COVID-19 vaccines," Seminole Nation Chief Greg Chilcoat said in a statement.
What about Africans who caught and sold their own people into slavery?
Those goddamn white supremacists. When will it end?
What is the woke mob going to do? Take away their reservations? We can’t look into history and only find good things, we look into history to see how people failed so we don’t repeat the same thing. We can’t punish today’s society for past societies wrongs. GrowthMindset
If black people can prove their Native American ancestry they should be allowed those privileges and rights. It’s racist for Native American tribes and chiefs not to accept them.
History shows caucasians, Black people, indigenous people 'all' had slaves. Slavery knows no racial divide, it goes back thousands of years. We have reckoned w/our history & racism is not a major issue in America. The Democrats want you to think it is but they are wrong
I find it interesting how this country and certain citizens consistently will not face and correct the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow . But call themselves Christians or some other respectable people but that how you know white supremacy and racism is still alive and well
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