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As the nation just marked the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre along what was known as Black Wall Street, there’s one story that is largely overlooked. Allotments by Oklahoma tribes for their former slaves were among the key reasons the Black residents—including Freedmen—were able to build wealth.
Guests:
Saché Primeaux-Shaw (enrolled in the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma, Seminole and Chickasaw freedmen descendent, and Yankton Dakota descent) – community organizer
Dr. Maurice Franklin – lecturer and consultant on organizational sustainability and development strategies, professor at California State University, Northridge and a founding member of the National Black Justice Coalition
Break 1 music: Memorial Song (song) Porcupine Singers (artist) Alowanpi – Songs Of Honoring – Lakota Classics: Past & Present, Vol. 1 (album)
Break 2 music: Stomp Dance (song) George Hunter (artist) Haven (album)
Osiyo Hello In Cherokee I am a fan of Native American calling, I am now listening to this show I am on the email list when I read about the subject and I am in shock! I am unenrolled Cherokee African American and white, this is something I did not never know about and I am shocked, WOW! I am proud of being young gifted and black and I am loving being black yet as an Indigenious person I am shocked that black people not freedmen black people used allotment land that belongs to Indigenious peoples were used for black people to get wealth. I am just in shocked! thank you for broadcasting this and Sean did a great job hosting the show.
How did the freedman of Tulsa learn the skills to create their prosperity? Were they leased out to business people outside of the tribe?