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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Graham Lee Brewer

Muscogee Nation court rules descendants of enslaved people are entitled to citizenship

Muscogee Nation Freedmen Citizenship - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

The Muscogee Nation Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that two descendants of people once enslaved by the tribe are entitled to tribal citizenship.

The court found that the tribal nation’s citizenship board violated an 1866 treaty when it denied the applications of Rhonda Grayson and Jeffrey Kennedy in 2019 because they could not identify a lineal descendant of the tribe.

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