Oklahoma Freedmen of the Five Tribes Traci Rabbit 31 1/2" long

31 1/2" long

the Treaty of New Echota

Great for layering

With this foundational collection at its center

Surrounding the eagle are 14 stylized turkey feathers

Oklahoma Freedmen of the Five Tribes Traci Rabbit 31 1/2" longThe Freedmen of Oklahoma were Black people, both enslaved and free, who had been living among the Indian nations. After the official abolition of slavery in 1866, they forged an identity as their own people as they faced the challenges of the western frontier. By 1906, before Oklahoma statehood, more than twenty thousand people had been classified as "Freedmen" from the Five Tribes: Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Nations. For