BLACK INDIANS SELF DETERMINATION All Rights and Privileges 1984 Song and Dance of the United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs Despite clear evidence that African Ancestored Native Americans and their descendants were/are considered Citizens, Members of the Tribes and eligible for Citizenship having protected rights via the language of the Treaties; Black Indians also inherited guaranteed protections from Tribal Adoptions, The Indian Appropriation Act of 1871, Acts of Congress of 1896, 1898,1908, the Oklahoma Welfare Act and Title 25. Black Indians were granted Rights in the Federal Treaties of 1866, including the enjoyment of specified Protections, Land Allotments, Voting Privileges, Benefits, Immunities, Equal Interest in Tribal Benefits, Programs. Even with the best of laws, specific language and a full blood population backing them with all their might, Black Indian Citizenship remained tenuous at best for Seminole Freedmen and virtually non-existent for Citizens tracing their lineal descent from Indian Citizens on the Dawes Freedmen Rolls. The main problem was that Black Indians were unaware that they would be continually fighting the well heeled descendants of the Confederacy, Jim Crow and Racial Superiority in America, even until the year 2004...and the most fierce battle against Black Indians was being fought by the most powerful Agencies of U.S. Government itself, headed by the very department responsible for the direct protection of Indian Rights. Black Indian Researchers, Activists and Supporters, as early as the 1980's tried to engage the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, including Congress and the White House, in honest dialog about the legal status and continued citizenship of the Freedmen. However, this fight the powerless Freedmen found themselves in against the all powerful U.S. Government would seemingly be lost quietly, without much fanfare or success, leaving an even cloudier trail of unanswered questions and new ones in the wake of questionable responses. One such outstanding communiqué, with dramatizes appropriately the duplicity, arrogance and distain the U.S. Department of the Interior has for Black Indians and how easily mis-information is passed in an effort to fatigue the struggling individual, in hopes that they will just go away with the simplistic looking answers given as a first line of defense. Following is the example of the letter sent to a Sovereign Citizen inquiring about the status of Black Indians. The reader will note 1. First that the activist asked for a Census of people of African Descent who on the date of ratification of the treaty were resident in within the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations. The answer given was that a provision of the "act of 1906" prohibits persons other than those authorized by the Secretary of the Interior from possessing a copy of all or part of the approved rolls. And finally that "we do not have a list of such persons residing within any of the Nations at the time of the ratification of the Treaties. This is preposterous when one considers that this document "Freed" the persons in question. 2. The activist requested a definition of the boundary of the "leased district", yet they were given terms that a layman could not understand, such as County names, interpreted land marks, etc. 3. The document also reinforced the false theory that all former slaves of Native Americans were Black and that they did not bear Indian Blood. 4. The document reflects that the Freedmen were given the right to receive allotments of land within the Indian Nations (which was allotted only to Citizens of the Nations) and that generally they were to enjoy "all the rights and privileges of native tribal members: but it added that although Freedmen were included in the Final Roll of Indian Citizens, they were "in a category separate from that of members by blood." 5. The document also goes on to state that while "they" may have vested individual rights such as title to land, "they" have no right to share in or benefit from programs carried out by the United States for Indians because "they" are not Indians. If this were so, it begs to question why "they were included in the Treaty as Citizens", in Dawes Commission Final Rolls as Citizens and issued Citizenship Certificates and communicated with by the Department of the Interior as Citizens, until the after 1941. 6. The document begins to display evidence of schizophrenia, as it goes on to state that "they" have shared in some judgments awarded the Five Civilized Tribes, but not others, "depending upon the date the damage was done to the "tribe." 7. Lastly, the document recounts that Freedmen and their descendants are not members of the Chickasaw, Choctaw or Creek Tribes (even their adoptions have been violated) and that they might be considered for membership in the Cherokee and Seminole Tribes. That was 1984, today is quite a different story. It becomes quite clear, upon further consideration of the document that the Department of the Interior have taken the Jim Crow Mantle up against the the Freedmen, in violation of U.S. Laws against Racial Discrimination, Ethnic Exclusion and denial of Treaty Rights. They have taken a lead position in the illegal abrogation and the willful breaking of the Contractual agreements of the Treaties of 1866 and have adversely influenced the Public, the Tribal Governments and other U.S. Federal Government Employees against treating Black Indians in Fairness and Equality, Free from the constraints of Discrimination due to Race, Ethnicity and Previous Condition of Servitude. Citizenship Record of Ned Roberts Choctaw Freedmen Roll Number 2594 Census Card 102 Great-Great Grandfather of Eleanor “Gypsy” Wyatt
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