African-AmerIndian Americans Banquet

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BARTLESVILLE – The Descendants of Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes Association and the African Indians of the 5 Civilized Tribes Foundation will co-host the Fourth Treaty Celebration banquet on Friday, April 17, in Bartlesville [OK]. … The freedmen and their descendants – former slaves of Indians or free mixed African Indians – received tribal citizenship rights through 1866 treaties signed by tribal leaders and the U.S. government. …