I Know Where My Ancestors Come From wmv

A video that informs the public about the history of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Freedmen, the formerly enslaved people who lived among Native Americans and later adopted as citizens in the Choctaw Nation but denied citizenship in the Chickasaw nation.

Despite a long history of association, the freedmen and their descendants have almost been written out of the history of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes of Indians.

This effort is the beginning of a project that will develop educational material to correct this oversight and strive to entertain as well as inform the public of this unique history.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• black indian
• chickasaw
• choctaw
• indian territory
• oklahoma
• slavery
• native american
• five civilized tribes
• history
• video griot
• chahta lusa
• chiksa lusa

[momsmitchell]

just wonderful, great, the very best thank you all much love to everyone

Marcele

[estelusti]

@momsmitchell Thank you Marcele! I've been thinking about putting together a video on the Humdy's and would love to contact any descendants to see if they would collaborate and share photos for the project.

Let me know if you are interested or know of someone who may be able to assist.

[ddc0828]

My great grandfather was Porter Shoals from Idabel OK! God bless you!

[OddishThing18]

Vernon Guy Doerrer was my great great grandfather.

[helen63611]

this is my husband john davis great great great grandfather wow

[TheSeeur]

Thank you for this video. It's a small world. Edmund Humdy is my great great grandfather. Amazing history. Love the narration...beautiful job!

[VideoGriot]

@momsmitchell Greetings Marcele, I appreciate your kind words and I am familiar with some of the HUMDY/HOMEDY documentation on your family. Clearly it would be nice to have more information so the HUMDY story can be integrated in the larger story of blacks who lived and were enslaved among the Chickasaw Indians. I look forward to any contributions you or your family can add to the historical record

Terry Ligon

[momsmitchell]

Thanks to all of you who has put this wonderful prideful video together. My name

is Marcele my father L C Humdy parents were Charley Humdy and Matilda Stevenson Humdy. They had 13 children 10 boys and 3 girls, We celebrate our 1st Humdy family reunion in Az. this year 2011. I have always been so proud of my last name and where I hail from. I will be contacting you all

[1wannago]

My family has been wondering about our Chickasaw heritage. We are the McQuillers. Any findings on our name?

[safehouse123]

absolutely precious:)