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182580, yes, because there's only ever been a 5 tribes
Posted by PoppaGeorge, Mon Nov-09-15 08:43 PM
>Well, since you mentioned Cherokees we can definitely talk
>about them since they've been disowning blacks left & right.
>
>Or we can talk about the 5 tribes, all who have owned slaves.

There are 567 federally recognized Tribes. There are many, many tribes that have disappeared all together since slavery, and still others in this country that still don't have federal recognition.

You're harping on 5 tribes, one of which (the Seminoles) didn't really "enslave" Africans, and gave them pretty much a free life.

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>We can also focus on the Chickasaw tribe who consciously and
>deliberately chose to embrace racial ideology that degraded
>blackness and associated it exclusively with enslavement.
>
>We can also look into revolts like those of Prince & Richard
>Harkins
>
>Oh, let's not forget about the wealthy members of the Choctaw
>Tribes who had slaves so that they could hold onto political
>and cultural autonomy just to keep face for the white man
>while pursuing self-interested economic and diplomatic goals.
>
>And then how tribes kept slaves even after slavery was over or
>even worse send them out to be arrested on grounds of bein a
>vagrant & auctioned off to the highest bidder...which we all
>know is slavery by another name.
>
>But, you're right, my "history game" isn't as nearly superior
>as yours & im talking out of my ass.

Let's see...

The Choctaw and Chickasaw, which you mentioned above by name and by proxy (Prince, enslaved by the Choctaw Richard Harkins) are only two of hundreds, if not thousands of Native Tribes the majority of which never owned slaves. What you're talking about amounts to trying to make an issue out of Black slave owners.


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