The Oklahoma Historical Society said in a media release that Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band has been awarded $25,000 ...

Once largely forgotten in local history, the three Black freemen credited with founding ... by delivering mail via boat up and down the Indian River Lagoon as far north as Titusville.

Ord saw service across the East and West coasts, including during the Second Seminole War in 1841 and the Rogue River Indian War in ... commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau in the state, Ord ...

In Indian Territory (much of today’s eastern ... with the African Americans who immigrated later. The freedmen viewed the black interlopers as participants in the white man’s plunder and ...

Freedmen also took up the sport, and in the decades after the Civil War, it's estimated that as many as one in four American cowboys was Black ... lives on in the Indian National Finals Rodeo ...

Tammany Hall bought the votes that transitioned the North from opposing the war because it might help Black people to desiring ... that emancipation would allow the freedmen to move North to ...