In a story published July 23, 2026, The Associated Press reported that the Muscogee Nation Citizenship Board found that the Creek Freedmen citizenship applicants could not identify a lineal descendant of the tribe.

Civil rights attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons learned about the Tulsa Race Massacre during college.

While many across the country recognize Juneteenth as the end to the institution of slavery in America in 1865, some tribal nations in Oklahoma continued to own slaves until the following year, 1866.