In the 1830s, members of the Muscogee Creek Nation were removed from their homelands in the southeastern United States and forced to migrate to Indian Territory, what is now Oklahoma. This migration is known as the Trail of Tears. Among those persons forced to migrate were the Black African Indian slaves of the Creeks, free Black African Indians, and those of mixed Black African and native Indian decent. The people later known as Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen lived in the Creek Nation prior to the American Revolutionary War. They were full Creek Tribal Citizens, they married into the tribe, served as interpreters, judges, senators, attorneys, treaty delegates, and signed official treaty documents for the entire Creek Nation. The Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen consisted of (1) Free Black African Tribal members, (2) children of both Creek Indian Tribal Members, and those considered to be of African ancestry by virtue of slavery or former slaves. The lives of the people of the Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen in the Creek Nation where so closely intertwined with the Creek Indians that distinguishing Creek Indians from African Creek Indians with African descent was difficult, but generally not considered a vital issue because of generations of acquired culture, language, offspring, and marriage. MCIFB
Posted on: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 04:36:54 +0000
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