Cherokee Oklahoma Reservation - Freedmen - Black Indians 

Cherokee and proud! I'm proud of my Lakota blood, Penobscot, and Monacan too! Can't forget my French and African American

1:53 This video is disingenuous, because it negates the fact that not all African Americans on Cherokee reservations were runaways. MANY were OWNED as SLAVES by the Cherokee Indians. Tell the whole truth: Native Americans owned slaves too. This is why the Cherokee Freedmen exist and why many are still fighting the Cherokee Nation for their rights to this day.

As an Afro native I always want to Learn more about my Cherokee culture. I felt like because I was half black that made me less native. But no it doesn’t it because my blood line is beautiful. I want to learn about my culture because my grandfather didn’t he was assimilate into white culture and stripped of his spirt and now its my time to give it back.

All I'm gonna say is,,,,, "$5.00 Indians!!!" 🤔😏🙄

Irish/Cherokee myself. We're all relatives. The government wants us to forget that. If we all come together, their empire will fall.

My grandfather was a black Cherokee Indian. My grandmother was half Choctaw Indian and Dutch.

The family I was adopted into are from Cherokee in Oklahoma, since hearing they had slaves, that they dragged along the trail of tears with them, but they wanted to keep all the benefits of a lawsuit to themselves, and not share with their fellow victims, victims like themselves. I lost all respect for them. I know we all come from dark and horrible histories, and no one is innocent, but that was too much. I'm glad the family that adopted me moved on from such horrible hypocrisy. I'd like to also. No More Hate.

Osiyoo 😎 black Cherokees still here 😎creeks too😎

Native Americans true color is reddish-brown. In the ancient Hebrew text that color is called adomi. It's the color of Jasper. And it looks considerably different than blacks from Africa however, once you mix the black race is with the Indians it becomes difficult to tell the colors from each other you have to start looking at physiological markers.

My Great grandmother was full Cherokee. I identify more with this and my African American roots for one simple reason... They are closer to me. White commentators here are pretty shameful to tell us what we can't and can identify with when you guys do so much cultural appropriation. The thing is, we (African Americans) mostly come from a long line of slavery. This involved rape, separation, and a lot of people "missing". The hardships we faced in America and the culture we created here are much closer to us than the ones in Africa. This is why we are now known as Black or Black Americans, because we realized that we were calling ourselves African American when most of us had no ties to Africa in the last several centuries. Don't get me wrong, we love African culture too, but the thing is, even with the use of Ancestry.com, finding out which slave went where and came from which ship and what their role was in which country is hard to find. We were mere cargo after all. I've gone to several pow wows and was sung Black and Cherokee spirituals while growing up. This is what I identify with. These are the things that I hold dear.

Race put aside, why are you using a northern indian drum (the music) for an article on Cherokee?

The music just speaks an inner pride. I feel the warrior in me and the saddness. My blood is flowing like a river.. tear just rolled down my cheek

Like most of these deceptive videos that try to make Black people Native Americans, this video fails to mention the meaning of freedman. The freedman was called a freedman because they were not free at first because they were slaves of the Cherokee. They were not Cherokee, but Black people held in bondage by these Native Americans. We are not Indians but there is a move to disassociate Black people from the African Family. DNA science proves the lies of such videos.

Love my Roots! my third generation grandmother was cherokee native american she lived to be 101 years old unfortunately she passed two years before I was born But I met three of my grate aunts that's also are cherokee.

I am Cherokee, Black and White, and I am all Native American.

I have cherokee ancestory ! Some of my family got shipped from alabama to okalahomoa and later other famly was from that reservation too !!

It's easy to tell the difference.

they are NOT the same thing, native americans, blacks, and indians are 3 different people in fact 3 different races all together

Indians were not black but they were dark skin. You could tell a difference not just on their facial features, hair, body but there color was different. This video is so wrong smh.

as of me i am proud to be half cherokee n african

I am a decendant of the Cherokee Nation. My fathers Grand mother and Grand Father are Cherokee from South Carolina and my mothers Grand Father is Choctaw. I would like to get to know my people, Where do start?

The original natives were black that's how others were able to hide amongst them

I like how they showed the dark woman and said this is what American Indians looked like before white people mixed. Showed that shit so fast and took it down I had to pause it. You ain't slik lol we still here.

I have called myself black all my life only to learn my great grandfather was cherokee.

Halito ,🏹 My Father's Side was Cherokee and Choctaw 🔥🩸🪶

I am Cherokee. My great grandmother was Cherokee and German her name is Josephine Renolds she was a midwife. My grandmother Etta Gantt married my grandfather Hick Gantt who was a freedman and I have the papers “Freedman’s list” with his name on it. They settled down in Gantt Alabama and had a farm and lumber mill. I am of Cherokee blood and can prove it. One drop of Cherokee blood makes one Cherokee.

I just found out today that I am from Robeson County, NC. My father always talk about how we are Native Americans. I am planning a trip to go there.

This song is so good im half african American half white and this made me get up and start dancing

This was very impressive way to shed some light on Midwestern and Central history I will say there were already copper people along the Eastern sides of America

My grandfather and his siblings are half black n half black Cherokee, beautiful ppl,my father has beautiful hair and my brother also,love hunting, fishing and as a child I wondered why i styd with my great aunt alot but I learned alot about survival and jus being loyal, very good natured family,wanna know more, something about the music and dance makes me stopping my tracks,a certain calmness come over me n cant explain but it's a very strong connection to my grandparents n Cherokee traditions 💪💯😇❤️❤️❤️❤️💥💥💥🙏🙏🙏✨

Just because you want something to be true doesn’t make it so

Thanks fam the truth is here and our Anceztors know we are ready and they are going to back us up.

The black culture had always been in the Americas...

Numerous native tribes took blacks as slaves. After Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation Act ,freeing slaves ,at least one tribe in Oklahoma refused to set theirs free. Native Americans and blacks in the US do not have a special brotherhood

This is truth! This is whatsome of my people are a part of . Most of my elder family shown us pictures as children, and people all whom were Black Cherokee Indians called Freedman, or colored people. I had uncles, cousins, and I had a great aunt that looked just like these people. In fact, the story was told that some would hide Blacks in these tribes , so they began to adopt and become very much apart of this culture, and some Black people do not know this. Some black people think to be Indian you have to have straight hair, and look light skinned to be an Indian , this is not true. There were Black Indians too!

My best well wishes for all Indian nations

Oh but it is how these Black people became associated and mixed with the Cherokee. In their attempt to emulate southern white Antebellum society, many wealthy Cherokee, who by the early 19th century were of both indigenous and European heritage took to owning plantations as well as Black slaves. At the time of their removal to Indian Territory they took these slaves with them. It's the Cherokee who are mixed European that want to exile the Cherokee who are mixed with African.

This video is nice but a lot is missing. The "five civilized tribes" owned black slaves who were accepted into the tribes after the Civil War. Many Cherokee fought for the South. The term Buffalo Soldier was coined by the Comanche tribe who fought against black regiments post Civil War. The Comanche called them that because they thought their hair resembled that of an American Bison. They were thought of as bad medicine by the Comanche. Full blood natives don't look like black people.

Slavery never existed in America, and why did you forget the most important part The $5 Indian ? This is the real reason why Natives don't have the melanated skin

how in the hell white can tell us about our history

Hi, will you identify the two black, initial Indians, And I think we're related?.. thanks!

I'm black Indian

I'm a direct decent from my 5th great grandfather. Thomas Nash who brought the first suit to the Cherokee tribe using the old settlers treaty. He died during all the years of court battles. But his son Benjamin Nash took over the suit and won. I found his brother who is also my 5th great uncle and his children on the Dawes roll

So I am told by the woman who gave birth to me her great great great granddad was full blooded Cherokee..they came from Rome Georgia and then moved to Tennessee and from there to Detroit Michigan..but she was not raised by her parents they died when her and her sister we're young. How. Can I find out who her parents were. And how much is the blood of Cherokee in my blood 2019 she is 88 years old

How do you get membership on as a descendent of the Cherokee Nation???? Do Anyone know?

My great grand mother was full Choctaw Indian as told to me by my father. I would love to join a tribe but do not know how. I am living in Colorado now if someone knows what steps I need to take to do this, Thank you.

So my mother who is alive. Today tells me her great great grand father was full blooded cherokee ..So what will that make me and my kids ..and would her great great grand father be in the list. Can some one help me

My AUNT MS HANNAH WAS CHEROKEE MY DADS SISTER THANK YOU FOR SHARING.

Interesting no one never mentions the Asian Explores that came to America and mixed up the nationalities some more! One of my Japanese friends explained such history to me an I never studied about Asian Explorers in History Class intermingling with Slaves! Ummm...now I understand why one of my grandmothers and cousins today have slanted eyes!

Im from Oklahoma and one of the issues that really upset me is the argument amongst the descendents of the indigenous and the slaves about who is native and who are the so called african slaves! The so called white man has oppressed us all!! Enslaved, rap, murdered and stole from all of our ancestors!! The theif comes to kill, steal, and destroy; St. John 10:10. The only thing that really divides us is the "gift" that the so called indigenous people accepted from the white man. Which in turn was never reparations. How are you going to "gift" something that was never yours in the first place!! Wake up people!!!😤😤😤😤

This video is b.s and yes u can tell the difference between native americans and African Americans distinctively regardless to color photo or not. Their 2 complete different races. As different as black and white. Nothing racist or stereotypical about it. Just a good set of eyes and basic common sense

Why are white people so concerned about black Indians.

Thank you for making this video. Very informative. My husband is part Plains Cherokee on his dad's side. He qualifies for a blue card but doesn't want one simply because he has no real upbringing in the culture and thinks this would make him look like a wannabe. He has blonde hair and blue eyes but some of the Cherokee features and can go a week without shaving. (How many hairy Indians are out there?) Interesting about slaves hiding out in the reservations, but it makes sense. Unfortunately my father-in-law didn't talk about his Cherokee side. It was very hush-hush in his family.

Slaves did not " flee" to the Indian reservations, they were enslaved by indians and transported during trail of tears. Don't sugar coat what they did to blacks.

Yo at 1:41 I think I heard an Indian DJ up in there!😎😂👌 This boi went like D-D-D-d-d-ddd...😂😂😂

I stand with All Native and Indigenious Peoples. Especially with All that: Anu Anu, the seed. Malama i ke aina. From mountains to oceans, from windward to leeward... Great Spirit. I am small and weak. empower me. I am one of; many children, you created. Grant me the wisdom and strange. To walk in your Beauty... I am Grateful for all the presents. Of my life's daily moments. The good, the bad, the ugly. May my humbleness from self humiliation. Serve you the best I possibly can... Mahalo nui loa; Ke Akua, Amakua, Aunty Pele, Nanna Hina, The man Jesus. to all the Kumu, that lite my life's path,.my Moms, my Poppy, My.step Dad. To all that influenced me. May, I honor and give proper respects. To that which always has given. Who ah... Thank you, Yall who made this video possible... Aloha n Hui hou

My grandfather was a black Cherokee Indian. My grandmother was half Choctaw Indian and Dutch.

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My great great grandmother was full blooded Cherokee. The intro is beautiful!

This is so far from historically accurate, it's hilarious! First off, Blacks didn't hide out on Cherokee reservations, they were brought there by Cherokee slave owners, (That's right Cherokees owned slaves, as well as fought for the south) The picture at 2:24 is an actual photo of an Indian with his slave. Blacks were dis enrolled because the Cherokee Nation got strict about it's Bloodlines, and Blacks were only members because they felt entitled to Cherokee benefits because the Cherokee were allowed to take their slaves on the Trail of Tears, so the Cherokee Nation acknowledges that Hardships give you NO entitlement to bloodline benefits or acknowledgement of lineage. This is all common History, too inconvenient to teach in school, but these Black Narratives are soooo far off the truth that it's laughable. These narratives play on the ignorant, too lazy to fact check.

It is clear they are the same color but not the same race. Different facial features hair and so forth. Many black people are just misinformed because back in the day people had to explain having kids with white men and they would be ashamed so theyd say "oh she just light cuz my grandma was Cherokee" and it passed down

black american born and indian=the same people. there is very little to no separation

Afrocentrics And Eurocentrics neither of you are original people's of the Americas get over yourselfs and do not forget about The Buffallo Soldiers that were Black lead by Charles Young A African American that sided with Whites Natives are not the only traitors

also Oklahoma has books with pictures Xerox has a way of helping students mitigate term papers no less

We out here

I found a few of my relatives on the Freeman rolls.

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My great great grandfather was a Cherokee freedman his name was squire Silk. He is also on the Dawes list. But to be honest the native Americans did not to right by him. Native people had black slaves too.

Why in reports of early explorers/ Paintings of early Foreigners and diaries. The American Indians are portrayed as people that don't look like the people We call Native american today? Why is Native american a new term? Why in paintings on Americans the people were very Dark skin and small tines even had what's considered to be Afrros? What happened to all the darker skin American Indians that weren't able to get the Land from the federal government? Or weren't able to get on any lists as Recorded American Indians? What happened to the American Indians that were reclassified as Black and Negro, Colored and African American? Why do the people today saying they are American Indians and accepted NY the government as such, why are they so Caucasian looking? Chinese looking but not at all looking like the description of the different Indians found here? Why people like Joseph Smith Believe and teach that Ameican Indians were cursed with Black skin for some sin against his Christian God? How come when you read about some of the history and Government underhanded dealings and reclassification of American Indians it doesn't match up with the people claiming to be Americans now? How could you look MOSTLY like the colonizers yet at the same time claim to be the person at Home here in America?

I love it when more truths come out

Those are not the real Indians of this land we call America

This is apart of my family specifically the Ross family

Native Americans are not black. They are tanned in summer time.

Thanks, Damon!!

The intro and those Mongolian rhynthemless chants. The earth has a pulse, that "moon dance" demonstration lacked connection to ANYTHING.

I'm Navajo, not African nor European. Get the facts straight. Native Americans are separate.

The same scholarship would claim King James a black man.

Melanin is everywhere... dark matter comes in all different colors and flavors. My Great Grandmother was Cherokee indian. Melanin, DarkMatter we everywhere. Original Gods and Goddess on this planet earth. Hotep!!!

this is interesting!

Keep searching Sis, the truth is out here...but you won’t find it in a school book. ✌🏽

Would all non- enrolled people be claiming to find out if they are Native American, like they all do right now, if N.A. didn't have Casinos?

Some native American tribes also sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War, because they did not want to lose their right to own slaves. The Confederate aligned tribes were under the leadership of the Cherokee chief, Stand Watie. This Cherokee chief was a proponent of slavery and owned slaves himself. He was also the only Native American to attain the rank of General in the Civil War. And he was the last Confederate States Army General to surrender! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_Watie

I want to tell you that I'm full native or Indian

What did the natives call this land before whites named it?

Thats a lie there was black indians here before that do your research

We are the real Indians of the USA

Native Americans are a mix of Indian and Chinese and the waves of people that came here came from those two countries. I thought they were only dis-enrolling those that didn't share the blood or whose ancestors weren't found on the Dawes roll. In order for ANYBODY to become a member of the Cherokee Nation they must prove at least one ancestor on the Dawes Roll. It used to go by quantum of blood but that has changed, for everyone. My ancestor was found there.

I like the music.

We are Indigenous not misnomer & adjectives. The colonizers call the Indigenous copper colored races Indians The Indigenous tribes weren't calling themselves Indians when we didn't speak this trade language called English.

They were african american that do have native in them but the thing is there is also the African the geechee. I know of the geechee throught my parents and my grandparents I researched but there is also Cherokee there too. People say we shouldn't be proud of both only one because you either look like one or the other. The skin tones in my family vary but there is that what some call red tint there. Regardless why should we only claim one and be proud of one?

Freedman not indians get it right were redman

It is not about color. It is about who the person is related to. Cherokee men did not typically wear their hair in 2 braids so who knows who is in the picture.

Psalms 83 hidden identity of Hebrews . From Hebrews to Aboriginal, to West Indian ,to black (a color) to A.American.

Only "recessive gene" I have experienced here, is the "recessive-spelling-gene". Why are so many people biting each other's heads off, here, about some ancient stuff that can't be proven? People of EVERY skin colour do, and have done, horrors to each other, to their OWN as well as to other groups: First Nations Peoples, Black Africans, Europeans, Indians, Chinese. Nobody can say, "My genes make me "better" or more "pure" than your genes." That is (racist) BS! Sly Stone said, "We got to live TOGETHER!" (Here... and NOW!) That's all we GOT! So if we spend all our time thousands of years ago in some imagined History Book, we "...ain't gonna make it with anyone, anyhow..." --Lennon At least not HERE; at least not NOW! And that's all we got.

How in the hell is Hannah montana mixed with indian.

I feel sorry for a number of my Black brothers and sisters who have been fooled by RU-vid hustlers and con men like Dane Calloway and others. These con men know that a lot of uneducated people and people suffering from low self-esteem have an identity crisis. They tell these people that they are the Native Americans and that they've always been here. These wannabes already are ashamed of themselves and do not want to be who they truly are. So they grab on to a lie with both hands. Myself, I'm proud to be of African blood. The shame goes to those who enslaved others, not the ones who were held in slavery. These RU-vid hustlers create controversy for the sake of likes and subscribe. There's a group of flat earthers that do the same thing. Con men are aware that some people need to believe in a mystical secret, so these con men prey on weak minds. There's one such con man who has gotten a gathering of believers simply by saying that Stevie Wonder is not really blind. Still, another has a following from saying "Michelle Obama is actually a man in drag. Here's a kicker. There's one group that believes that each race of man comes from a different planet.

I didn't even bother to look at the video. Seminole, Cherokee, Shawnee are the main slave owner tribes. It's amazing that most blacks have no idea about this.

It don't matter how much N.A. one has in their heritage, what matters is that N.A. ever becomes a born again believer in Jesus Christ. Without Jesus no one, not even a N.A. can enter the kingdom of heaven. America was opened up so the Gospel of Jesus could save the souls of many people that will fill the kingdom of God up of many people from every tribe, nation & tongue.

Eartha Kitt. 😍 Had no idea she was Cherokee.

Uh they might've been here before us but us Black Americans should deserve to be called true Americans as well due to ancestral history of building this country. The new Black American race was BORN here due to the mixture of races. On top of that, some Black Americans do have Native blood. This is where we're for and been from 500 years. We're not from Africa or Europe as our ancestors were.