Choctaw & Chickasaw Descendants Black History Day 3

Choctaw & Chickasaw Descendants Black History Day 3

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Choctaw & Chickasaw Descendants-Black History Day 3

It may be remarked that it is only in the Choctaw-Chickasaw tribe where this discrimination against negro blood in the distribution of the tribal property now obtains. The discrimination and denial of the property rights of the negro in the other tribes has long ago been corrected by legislation and by decisions of the Court of Claims.

It might also be observed that friends of the Indians, inimical to the interests of these descendants, have advanced the argument that the contention of these persons is based only upon the same disposition and has no more foundation Than that set forth by the negro at the close of the civil war for the confiscation and distribution of the slave owners' property. There is absolutely no analogy in these claims. 

Whatever may be said against the claims made in that day, the present condition arises out of a bona fide contract in the form of treaties between the Government and the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations and the statute and tribal laws as they relate to the property rights of these people, and no claim or right is here being urged that does not derive its vitality from the same source as that of the white descendant of Indians, which right goes to-day unquestioned.