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And American Indians point to land and resources theft, boarding schools, and cultural and religious persecution. But while African-Americans eye individual payments, Indian tribes seek control ...
Most American Indian tribes opt out of federal death penalty Associated Press FLAGSTAFF — In a heinous case on the Navajo Nation, an 11-year-old girl was lured into a van, sexually assaulted and ...
America's 2nd Largest Indian Tribe Expels Blacks The Cherokee Nation recently stripped citizenship from a majority of African-Americans who descended from slaves of wealthy Cherokee Indians before ...
Walton-Raji’s ancestors are Freedmen, African-Americans who were slaves of the Five Civilized Tribes – the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole Nations – in Indian Territory ...
Big Chief Monk Boudreaux (center) leads his Mardi Gras Indian tribe, the Golden Eagles, on Super Sunday. ... they draw inspiration from both Native American and African ceremonial dress.
Their leader, Henry Berry Lowry, gave an interview while imprisoned in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1889, in which he described his ancestry as a mix of Portuguese and African instead of Indian.
No American Indian has been executed in any case from the Sac and Fox reservation. Still, the ability of tribes to decide on the death penalty doesn't completely exempt Native Americans from ...
What If Native American Tribes Had Gotten Their ... to prosecute crimes committed on a reservation by an Indian. Henceforth, the tribe, ... not just whites but around 3,000 African Americans.