Descendants of Freedmen Association Meeting – Saturday – 7/14/2012.  ONE PM.  First Missionary Baptist Church, 429 Denison St., Muskogee Oklahoma.  Please bring a covered dish to share with Meeting attendants.  Local contact is Mrs. Brown. 918-683-2753   king605874@sbcglobal.net  .  Political candidates for nearby tribal and non tribal elections will be recognized.  Updates on the status of Federal Court cases will be given during the meeting.

On Saturday August  11, 2012, The Descendants of Freedmen Association will host their next meeting at the Rudisill Library, 1520 N Hartford, Tulsa Oklahoma ONE PM. The meeting is free and open to the public.  Local contact is Mr/Mrs Lawrie: at 918-587-6968 or . 

The Descendants of Freedmen Association will host their September meeting on  Saturday September 8^th 2012 at the Faith Memorial Baptist Church, 3117 N Kelly, Oklahoma City, Ok.  The open meeting will begin at one PM.  Political candidates for nearby tribal and non tribal elections will be recognized.  The open meeting will be followed by a short closed business meeting for members of the Descendants of Freedmen Association. 

On  July 2, 2012, the US Department of Interior Filed briefs in the Federal court case Cherokee Nation Vs Nash et al and Ken Salazar which countersued the Cherokee nation for violating the 1866 treaty rights of freedmen.  Articles include:

http://www.kjrh.com/dpp/news/local_news/cherokee-nation-freedmen-issue-to-be-decided-in-court

http://www.news-star.com/news/x1446671603/Counterclaim-file-in-Cherokee-freedmen-dispute

http://www.cherokeephoenix.org/Article/Index/6399

http://64.38.12.138/News/2012/006284.asp

http://www.originalpechanga.com/2012/07/department-of-interior-files-for.html

 

The briefs filed by the US government as well as the Attorneys for the freedmen on July 2 2012 can be read at  :

http://turtletalk.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/update-in-cherokee-nation-v-nash-cherokee-freedmen-case/

We encourage those who wish to fight racism and  support the freedmen in their fight for enforcement of 1866 treaty rights by donating to the 501 c3 (see also separate African Indians Foundation link):

African Indians Foundation, Box 42452, Oklahoma City, Okla 73123

Or Funds can be sent directly to the Velie Law Firm, 401 W Main St, Norman, Ok. 73069.    (Phone: 405-310-4333)

New Article on Disenrollments – Enhancing Tribal Sovereignty by Protection Indian Civil Rights

http://www.law.seattleu.edu/x3940.xml?q=protecting+tribal+sovereignty&btnG.x=26&btnG.y=11

The Descendants Association now has Freedmen Tee Shirts. Please contact us on how to obtain them. 

A U tube of part of the Descendants of Freedmen Black History program, held in Muskogee on February 13 2010 is at:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmoaaQJKxas  For those wishing to acquire a CD with the song sung by Mrs Whitfield on the U tube, contact Deacon  Ishmael King at: 918-683-0821 or rubyking329@sbcglobal.net.   A portion of the proceeds from the CDs are dedicated to African Indians Foundation by the King family.