In a landmark decision, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation supreme court ruled that Rhonda Grayson and Jeffrey Kennedy, two descendants of people who were once enslaved by the tribe, are entitled to tribal citizenship.
The court ruled on Wednesday that the Muscogee Nation’s citizenship board violated a 1866 treaty in denying Grayson and Kennedy’s 2019 application for enrollment. At the time, the citizenship board argued that the descendants should be denied because they could not identify lineal descendants of the tribe.
