Researcher Angela Walton-Raji has been studying African-Native genealogy for over 20 years. The Comanche family pictured here is from the early 1900s. Courtesy Sam DeVenney Angela Walton-Raji has been ...
According to the 23andMe DNA-testing service, I have 0.1 percent West African DNA from my mother. I also have approximately 5-6 percent Native American from my mother, who is now deceased. I have a ...
When I was growing up, my mother frequently spoke of her Native American ancestry. She claimed to be one-eighth Cherokee; and often said this qualified her to live on the reservation. I loved knowing ...
In Oklahoma, Juneteenth highlights tribal slavery descendants’ fight for recognition and citizenship
Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, but thousands of people in Oklahoma are still fighting for full citizenship in the tribal ...
When Chief Louie C. Chavis of the Beaver Creek Indians spoke to a captivated crowd at the South Carolina State Library, he asked, “Where do you want me to go?” — as if his breadth of experience and ...
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