Monday, January 16, 2012

"I have a dream that one day...the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood."

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Angela Walton-Raji & Colin Kelley A Choctaw Freedman Descendant  and an enrolled Choctaw who descends  from the Choctaw slaveholder of ...
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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Treasure Chest Thursday: Two Sheets of Paper

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Source: Personal Collection As  child I would often look at the old plat map above and simply wonder what it was and why it was saved. It ...
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Monday, December 12, 2011

Freedmen Neighborhood School Rosters, Choctaw Nation

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Several years ago I had the opportunity to visit Salt Lake City to attend the 2006 AAHGS Conference . While in Salt Lake I was also able to...
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Sunday, December 4, 2011

Acts in Regards to Negroes, Free and Enslaved in the Cherokee & Choctaw Nations

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I believe that the beginning of healing comes from truly looking at the policies of the past.  I recently came across the words of Willia...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Forgotten Days of Early Oklahoma - The Negro State Fair

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From the years before statehood till the mid 1900s there were a number of events that were frequently attended by the Oklahoma African Amer...
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Our History Has No Shame

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If one has been reading the papers, there has been a flurry of articles from the mainstream press as well as the Indian press.  All refer ...
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