“It’s about color, and when it comes down to it, they don’t want the black people to have anything” - Opal Jackson, Freedmen descendant
A little discussed past
Every summer at Tahlequah, Oklahoma, the Cherokee Indians sponsor their Trail of Tears pageant. The story of how the US government robbed the five tribes of their homelands in the south and moved them by force to Oklaholma. They don’t tell of the thousands of black slaves the tribes brought with them.
A history of slave ownership and African-Natives
Most of the ‘Five Civilized Tribes’ were slave holding nations.
Slavery was introduced by white slave owners into the upper echelons of Native nations. Most full-blooded Natives weren’t slave owners, rather the ‘mixed-bloods’, the people who lived like white planters, were. Masters frequently raped their female slaves. Those slaves had children who would go on to be known as the Freedmen.
After the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, a treaty was signed with the federal government in 1866. In this agreement, four of five tribes guaranteed full tribal citizenship for former slaves.
The treaty clearly says that former slaves ‘shall have all the rights of Natives’.
Despite this, the Freedmen are still fighting for their rights to this day.
Current struggles of the Freedmen
“We are still being treated the way that they was treating us back then. This is something that needs to come to an end” - Sylvia Davis, Seminole Freedmen.
Sylvia is proud of her Native heritage and sits on the Seminole tribal council. Despite this, she has encountered constant racism and hostility.
In tribal meeting, Sylvia says “I had a tribal member sit across from me using the word ‘nigger’ and then the Chief of the Seminole Nation, standing at the podium, with a smile on his face. I do have a name. My momma didn’t name me no ‘nigger’. My name is Sylvia and you can address me by that name”.
Theola Jones is a “proud member of the Seminole Nation”. Her two sons were recruited and accepted by the Haskell Indian Nations University because of their talents in football and basketball and their Seminole heritage but were denied access to the library and infirmary because they have black ancestry.
Despite being awarded “all the rights of Natives” in 1866, Freedmen continue to struggle for their rights and recognition.
Many are now being denied tribal citizenship, especially by the Cherokee Nation, and are purposefully excluded from any of the benefits, opportunities and revenue that are extended to all other recognised tribal citizens.
There are roughly 30,000 Cherokee Freedmen descendants today.
“When you know what you really are and you haven’t been embraced or acknowledged, it’s horrible’ - Kenneth Payton, Freedmen descendent
The removal of rights after 117 years of citizenship
From 1866 Freedmen were generally considered to be full tribal citizens. In the late 1970s federal services and benefits such as free health care were awarded to federally recognized tribes.
As members of the Cherokee Nation, federal benefits and services were also provided to the Cherokee Freedmen.
Efforts to block the Freedmen descendants from the tribe began in 1983, after over a century of recognition. The Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation issued an executive order stating that all Cherokee Nation citizens must have a “Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood” card in order to vote and be recognised.
The One-Drop Rule
The CDIB cards were made to be based on a specific federal census taken between 1902 and 1906. The problem is, this census was conducted under the ‘one drop’ rule.
They would simply look at the people being registered, and if they seemed like they had any black blood whatsoever they were classified as being strictly of African descent, even though they were socially, culturally and genetically Native.
Everyone else was put on a ‘blood roll’ where their quantum, or amount of native blood compared to white blood, was recorded.
It should be noted that like many people, the Cherokee Chief at the time was one-eight native and seven-eights white, yet on this treaty he would be regarded as a full Native with all the rights that the status brings with it.
This meant that no Freedman could possibly be allowed citizenship, even if they could document their heritage, and led to the completed the disfranchisement of the Cherokee Freedmen descendants, which was the intention.
that’s something i had to learn.. i had to learn that giving my time, my energy, my feelings, and throwing out information i gathered for 20 years, was not servicing me. nor was it services the people i thought were just ignorant. i was so idealistic, believing that under the meanness was a good person who could stop being racist. but there isn’t a good person underneath the evil mask. there really are awful people out who are worthless. i had to learn that, though it went against my very nature. now i do not give my time to just anyone. i only give my time and knowledge to those who can actually benefit from it. my silence is not an unwillingness to help, or to fight; but an acknowledgement that some people are not worth it.
my white friend is mad at me for writing on my own facebook about the genocide my people experience. like, white people’s mindset truly is “don’t make me think about what’s wrong and how i contribute to it. today is about me. just me and my happiness. just be quiet, love ya forever bestie!”
Lets take a moment to remember that almost every genocidal campaign by Europeans in the Americas was done with cooperation of Natives eager to exterminate enemy native nations. In fact the conquest of the Americas by whites would not have happened without it. Remember natives are just as guilty of the genocide of other natives in the Americas as Europeans were and were just as violent and bloodthirsty as Europeans.
bet you read that in a text book huh? anything to absolve white people of their guilt.
No I read a lot of history in general. It’s not really disputed. Whites and natives had a hand in native genocides. Both deserve blame.
wrong. when two tribes fight it is not an act of genocide, it is not an act of racism either. tribes fighting each other still held a moral compass. there are cultural practices behind who is killed between battling tribes. when white people came they wanted to kill every person, child and adult alike. the whites committed genocide. they had every intent to commit genocide. let’s pretend that it’s a thing: having convinced a few individuals to betray a group does not mean the entire race is to blame. you make claims with no support. you speak to silence native peoples. and you speak to take blame away from a group who deserves blame. your argument is disgusting. your argument is victim blaming. your argument is invalid. blaming a race for their own genocide? the fuck is wrong with you? keep your troll blog off of mine.
white supremacists will believe whatever they can imagine to pass their sins off to another.
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BREAKING: 4 white supremacists opened fire on protestors in Minneapolis at the #4thPrecinctShutDown after being confronted by protesters and community members.
5 people were hit and are said to be in stable condition.
Police were of minimal help and once they did come out they ended up macing the crowd.
“It’s about color, and when it comes down to it, they don’t want the black people to have anything” - Opal Jackson, Freedmen descendant
A little discussed past
Every summer at Tahlequah, Oklahoma, the Cherokee Indians sponsor their Trail of Tears pageant. The story of how the US government robbed the five tribes of their homelands in the south and moved them by force to Oklaholma. They don’t tell of the thousands of black slaves the tribes brought with them.
A history of slave ownership and African-Natives
Most of the ‘Five Civilized Tribes’ were slave holding nations.
Slavery was introduced by white slave owners into the upper echelons of Native nations. Most full-blooded Natives weren’t slave owners, rather the ‘mixed-bloods’, the people who lived like white planters, were. Masters frequently raped their female slaves. Those slaves had children who would go on to be known as the Freedmen.
After the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, a treaty was signed with the federal government in 1866. In this agreement, four of five tribes guaranteed full tribal citizenship for former slaves.
The treaty clearly says that former slaves ‘shall have all the rights of Natives’.
Despite this, the Freedmen are still fighting for their rights to this day.
Current struggles of the Freedmen
“We are still being treated the way that they was treating us back then. This is something that needs to come to an end” - Sylvia Davis, Seminole Freedmen.
Sylvia is proud of her Native heritage and sits on the Seminole tribal council. Despite this, she has encountered constant racism and hostility.
In tribal meeting, Sylvia says “I had a tribal member sit across from me using the word ‘nigger’ and then the Chief of the Seminole Nation, standing at the podium, with a smile on his face. I do have a name. My momma didn’t name me no ‘nigger’. My name is Sylvia and you can address me by that name”.
Theola Jones is a “proud member of the Seminole Nation”. Her two sons were recruited and accepted by the Haskell Indian Nations University because of their talents in football and basketball and their Seminole heritage but were denied access to the library and infirmary because they have black ancestry.
Despite being awarded “all the rights of Natives” in 1866, Freedmen continue to struggle for their rights and recognition.
Many are now being denied tribal citizenship, especially by the Cherokee Nation, and are purposefully excluded from any of the benefits, opportunities and revenue that are extended to all other recognised tribal citizens.
There are roughly 30,000 Cherokee Freedmen descendants today.
“When you know what you really are and you haven’t been embraced or acknowledged, it’s horrible’ - Kenneth Payton, Freedmen descendent
The removal of rights after 117 years of citizenship
From 1866 Freedmen were generally considered to be full tribal citizens. In the late 1970s federal services and benefits such as free health care were awarded to federally recognized tribes.
As members of the Cherokee Nation, federal benefits and services were also provided to the Cherokee Freedmen.
Efforts to block the Freedmen descendants from the tribe began in 1983, after over a century of recognition. The Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation issued an executive order stating that all Cherokee Nation citizens must have a “Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood” card in order to vote and be recognised.
The One-Drop Rule
The CDIB cards were made to be based on a specific federal census taken between 1902 and 1906. The problem is, this census was conducted under the ‘one drop’ rule.
They would simply look at the people being registered, and if they seemed like they had any black blood whatsoever they were classified as being strictly of African descent, even though they were socially, culturally and genetically Native.
Everyone else was put on a ‘blood roll’ where their quantum, or amount of native blood compared to white blood, was recorded.
It should be noted that like many people, the Cherokee Chief at the time was one-eight native and seven-eights white, yet on this treaty he would be regarded as a full Native with all the rights that the status brings with it.
This meant that no Freedman could possibly be allowed citizenship, even if they could document their heritage, and led to the completed the disfranchisement of the Cherokee Freedmen descendants, which was the intention.
Summary: Kristi of STFUMRAs insists on grouping trans women with cis men, attacks people who call her on transmisogyny, doesn’t collect transmisogynists on her posts, and invites another mod to spew the same transmisogynist beliefs.
Warning for this post for transmisogyny, misgendering, cissexism, menstruation, genitalia mentions, pregnancy and abortion.
Kristi made a deliberately transmisogynist, antagonizing post grouping trans women with cis men and then got angry when someone correctly tagged it “transmisogyny” and “cissexism” and demanded to know why.
The bolding is mine. Kristi is not simply ignorant and her transmisogyny is not accidental, she just seems to think that if she gets mad enough, she can get the definition of “transmisogyny” changed.
“Oh the irony
I am referred to as a uterus bearer when people discuss abortion, in fact I got yelled at for taking issue with that term.
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I’ll copy paste the relevant point from the transmisogyny masterpost here:
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28) Kristi makes an angry post about the term “uterus owners.” When called on the obvious cissexism (because there’s a specific context in which those terms are used, and it’s not when people just wanna say “women”), she attempts to backpedal and claim that her REAL gripe is just the phrasing, which should be “people with uteruses.”
If so, why was she ever yelling about wanting to be called a woman in the first place? Why was a response in which she says “Oh I am so sorry I want to be referred to as a woman BECAUSE I FUCKING AM ONE” deleted? Her original post is tagged “and I know not all women have a uterus”, so basically she’s aware of when the term is used, how it’s used, and that it’s not just cissexist and misgendering people to insist on using “women”, it’s not inclusive of cis women either!
Instead of addressing any of that, though, she doubled down on her ignorance, deleted posts that would look suspect, blocked people calling her out, and made post after post after post about it, where she changed the story from her having randomly complained about “uterus owners” to her having been directly called a “uterus bearer” (there’s a reason the reblogged comment chain in the second link is all TWERFs).
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Further,
someone not listening to her yelling about how you must say “woman” when discussing abortion has nothing to do with THIS current conversation, but bringing it up makes it very clear that this is more about revenge than making any real point.
“I can’t say dick havers, as some trans men have penises, therefore I
refer to people who produce semen as semen carriers/bearers so as not to
exclude trans women etc…. when I say in no uncertain terms, that they
should have absolutely no say or opinion when it comes to abortion
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If Kristi’s point is that only people who can get pregnant should get to have an opinion, then why not say “people who can’t get pregnant”?
Kristi has previously used the excuse that her trans men mods at femfaction find including trans men in posts about menstruation, abortion etc. triggering to misgender anyone who is not a woman but who menstruates, can get pregnant etc., so why the sudden “concern” for trans men being included now?
And no, she didn’t have a negative word to say to the many TWERFs swarming all over the post. Kristi is quick to leap down the throat of anyone saying she’s a transmisogynist, but she somehow never feels the need to argue with transmisogynist followers.
Asking someone to stop spewing ignorant, damaging opinions that are used to justify violence against trans women is not “bullying”, any more than anti feminists are being “bullied” by being told to stop being misogynists. Crying that backlash against them for their transmisogyny is harassment and bullying is a favorite tactic of TWERFs.
Kristi seems to be under the impression that if someone else says what she believes, on her blog, with her permission, she can’t be held accountable for it (see: femfaction).
You cannot say you are in-person friends with someone, allow them to mod your blog, never object to the bigoted things they say and then expect people to believe you’re not a bigot yourself because you didn’t say those exact words, particularly if you’ve said similar things and have the same views!
