Despite recent gains, tribal citizens descended from slaves face disparate treatment
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FILE - Marilyn Vann, president of the Descendants of Freedmen of the Five Tribes Association of Oklahoma City, testifies before the Senate Indian Affairs Committee about the status of the descendants of enslaved people formerly held by the Muscogee (Creek), Chickasaw, Choctaw, Seminole and Cherokee Nations, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 27, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Mark McClain, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and a Freedmen descendant, stands in front of a health clinic operated by the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma, Monday, Feb. 23, 2026, McLoud, Okla. (AP Photo/Graham Lee Brewer)FILE - LeEtta Osborne-Sampson is pictured outside her home Monday, April 26, 2021, in Oklahoma City.. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
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FILE - Marilyn Vann, president of the Descendants of Freedmen of the Five Tribes Association of Oklahoma City, testifies before the Senate Indian Affairs Committee about the status of the descendants of enslaved people formerly held by the Muscogee (Creek), Chickasaw, Choctaw, Seminole and Cherokee Nations, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 27, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)