Rhonda Grayson, a Black Creek Native American of Oklahoma, is one of many tribal descendants who are actively fighting to regain their citizenship in the Creek tribe.. In Okmulgee, Oklahoma, there ...

Black, Native American, and fighting for recognition in Indian country. Jack Healy; Sep 11, 2020 Sep 11, 2020; 0 ... (Creek) Nation. “We’re African American,” Graham, ...

She’s among the hundreds of Black Creek descendants who’ve unsuccessfully applied for citizenship since 1979. She applied in 2019, she recalled, but was denied; her appeal also was denied.

Black Creek Native Americans, or Creek Freedmen, are demanding to be citizens of the Muscogee Creek Nation. The Creek Freedman hosted a rally Wednesday night before an upcoming court hearing.

The Indian Health Service announced this week that Black Native Americans in the Seminole Nation, known as the Freedmen, will now be eligible for health care through the federal agency, which ...

Host Michel Martin explores shared black and Native American heritage with William Katz, author of Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage, and Shonda Buchanan, an English professor, ...

Black, American Indian/Alaska Native and Hispanic adults are more likely than their White peers to be hospitalized for the flu, but less likely to be vaccinated against it, a new report from the ...

While most African-Americans would likely say they have Indian blood flowing in their veins, DNA testing suggests that fewer than 10 percent of black people are of Native American ancestry. To be ...

Wilson, 44, is one sixty-fourth Creek Indian. Hill is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation through ancestors called Freedmen — the descendants of Black people who were enslaved by Native tribes.

Black, Native American, ... In a statement, the Muscogee (Creek) ... Black Indians joined the Union or Confederate armies, and later escaped to freedom in Kansas.