Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases where any tribe or band of Indians has been, or shall hereafter be, located upon any reservation created for their use, either … Read More(1887) Dawes Severalty Act
Mar. 21, 1866. Ratified, July 19, 1866. Proclaimed, Aug. 16, 1866. Whereas existing, treaties between the United States and the Seminole Nation are insufficient to meet their mutual necessities; and Whereas the Seminole Nation made a treaty with the so-called Confederate States, August 1st, 1861, … Read More(1866) U.S. Treaty with the Seminole Nation
June 14, 1866, Ratified July 19, 1866, Proclaimed Aug. 11, 1866 PREAMBLE Whereas existing treaties between the United States and the Creek Nation have become insufficient to meet their mutual necessities; and whereas the Creeks made a treaty with the so-called Confederate States, on the … Read More(1866) U.S. Treaty With The Creek Nation
Articles of agreement and convention between the United States and the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations of Indians, made and concluded at the City of Washington the twenty-eighth day of April, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, by Dennis N. Cooley, Elijah Sells, and E … Read More(1866) U.S. Treaty with the Choctaw & Chickasaw Nations
(Sections Related to the Freedmen) July 19, 1866. Ratified July 27, 1866. Proclaimed August 11, 1866 ARTICLE 4. All the Cherokees and freed persons who were formerly slaves to any Cherokee, and all free negroes not having been such slaves, who resided in the Cherokee … Read More(1866) U.S. Treaty with the Cherokee Nation
An Act Providing for the Abolition of Slavery in the Cherokee Nation, Be it enacted by the Natl Council, That in view of the difficulties and evils which have arisen from the Institution of Slavery and which seem inseperable from its existence in the Cherokee … Read More(1863) Cherokee Emancipation Proclamation
Sugar T. George a.k.a. George Sugar was born in approximately 1827, as a slave in the Muskogee Nation. This former slave emerged as a tribal leader. By the time of his death in 1900, Sugar T. George was also said to have been the “wealthiest Negro … Read MoreSugar T. George (1827-1900)
Sarann Knight was born in Eufaula, Oklahoma on July 22, 1920, to parents of mixed African American and Native American ancestry. She migrated to Las Vegas in 1942, settling with her husband, Luther Walker, in the Westside African American community. Preddy first sought employment on … Read MoreSarann Knight-Preddy (1920-2014)
Prominent social and civic leader in African American Seattle, Washington, Meredith Mathews was born in Thomaston, Georgia on September 14, 1919. He attended public schools in Georgia and then moved to Ohio for college. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Wilberforce University in … Read MoreMeredith Mathews (1919-1992)
Marquette Frye, whose arrest sparked the Watts Riots in 1965, was born in Oklahoma but grew up in rural Hanna, Wyoming. The family moved to Los Angeles, California in 1957, when Marquette was 13. By the age of 16, Marquette was struggling to adjust to … Read MoreMarquette Frye (1944-1986)
