Blacks in Indian Territory "The LIGON-FREEMAN Family History

Motivated by CNN's website, "Black in America 2, and their omission of blacks having a history in Indian Territory aka Oklahoma, I felt it was important to correct the omission by telling a little bit of my family's connection to the state.

The video concentrates on telling the history of some of my ancestors both maternally and paternally being enslaved by the Choctaw and Chiickasaw tribes. The so called Five Civilized Tribes seem to ignore this part of their history and most people seem totally unaware of the tribes pracitce of chattel slavery.

It is important that America's history be told in full. The tribes continue to lament about their forced removal from their ancestral homelands in Alabama and Mississippi but they failed to include their oppression of African and African-Native people in the "Trail of Tears" legend.

The fact that CNN could exclude such a large segment of "black" people from their map of "slave states" illustrates how the lack of including the story of the Indian Territory institution of slavery can give a false impression that the history of blacks in Oklahoma began "after" the land rush.

It also gives the Five Slave Holding Tribes a sense of moral certitude they don't deserve and it only compounds contemporary issues of "race" and "citizenship" we see demonstrated by the efforts of the Cherokee Freedmen as they attempt to re-claim their history among that tribe.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• race
• slavery
• Indian
• black Indian
• citizenship
• genealogy
• Oklahoma
• Cherokee
• Chickasaw
• Choctaw
• Creek
• Seminole
• Dawes Commission
• freedmen
• Ligon
• freeman
• family history
• Indian Territory

[aztec714ok]

niggers trying to be native american indian,,aint gonna happen monkey boy

[estelusti]

@aztec714ok You exemplify the racist attitudes that permeate the Native American community in regards to the history of the Five Slave Holding Tribes. The Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole tribes have a documented history that they have in my opinion deliberately avoided.

You have no credible response to the documented history so you resort to racial epithets in a childish and racist reaction to the truth.

Is that the best you got?

[aztec714ok]

so what.. africans had african slaves your no more righteous than the natives as a matter a fact everyone had african american slaves..

[estelusti]

@aztec714ok Let's try an experiment, you name one African that owned slaves and I'll name one "Indian" from the Five Slave Holding Tribes who held African and African Native people as slaves? That's 5 to 1!

No one is trying to be more righteous than Native Americans but I am setting the record straight and shedding light on the American Indian hypocrisy's on their righteous indignation.

[Monasukapanough]

Them federal tribes in Oklahoma is attacking all people they don't like.... right now the cherokee in oklahoma is trying to make it so NO indigenious people of kentucky can be recognized!!! These people have tried to get support to make it so no freedman can get whats rightfully theirs...they are trying to get support to keep the lumbee tribe from getting whats theirs either....it's a shame what these oklahoma tribes are doing.

[midpopcorn]

Deep

[blazerboop]

ISRAELITE HERITAGE WEBSITE.

[blazerboop]

DID YOU KNOW THAT THE SLAVE ARE DESCENDANTS THE NATION OF ISRAEL.HEBREW ISRAELITES CHECK OUT .

[jcherise1]

No he wasnt. But theres a lot that I have yet to discover. Its so interesting what u wrote in the description. Native Americans absolutely did own African slaves. Its crazy how we dont learn this in grade school... Again I have yet to learn a great deal about my history but im really excited to learn more.

[74karonligon]

@jcherise1 was your dad a Ligon?