{"id":57015,"date":"2018-11-13T03:06:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T03:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57015"},"modified":"2018-11-13T03:10:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T03:10:50","slug":"the-black-americans-suing-to-reclaim-their-native-american-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57015","title":{"rendered":"The black Americans suing to reclaim their Native American identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

The black Americans suing to reclaim their Native American identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a>
\n2018-10-02<\/p>\n

Caleb Gayle<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nRhonda Grayson, with an image of her great-great grandfather Willie Cohee. Photograph: Brett Deering for the Guardian<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Their ancestors were black slaves owned by Native Americans. Now they\u2019re suing the Creek nation<\/a> to fully restore their citizenship<\/em><\/p>\n

Johnnie Mae Austin and her grandson, Damario Solomon-Simmons, can tell you everything about their ancestry. They can go back as far as 1810, the year Solomon-Simmons\u2019 great-great-great-great-grandfather, Cow Tom, was born. With undeniable pride, they recount the man\u2019s feats of bravery during the civil war<\/a>, and his leadership within Oklahoma\u2019s<\/a> Creek<\/a> population.<\/p>\n

In fact, they are so determined to let the world know exactly who Cow Tom was that they\u2019re suing the Creek nation<\/a> to make sure his descendants aren\u2019t forgotten.<\/p>\n

Solomon-Simmons and his grandmother are black, but they argue they\u2019re also Creek, and they\u2019re fighting to reclaim their identity…<\/p>\n

Red the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Their ancestors were black slaves owned by Native Americans. Now they\u2019re suing the Creek nation to fully restore their citizenship<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,1467,8,3015,6940,20],"tags":[29071,29068,29072,3936,29067,29069,29066,1777,19470,29070,2103,29073],"class_list":["post-57015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-alaina-roberts","tag-caleb-gayle","tag-cow-tom","tag-creek-nation","tag-damario-solomon-simmons","tag-daniel-littlefield","tag-johnnie-mae-austin","tag-oklahoma","tag-rhonda-grayson","tag-sharon-lenzy-scott","tag-the-guardian","tag-willie-cohee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57016,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57015\/revisions\/57016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}