Muscogee Nation Supreme Court to hear arguments over Creek Freedmen citizenship rights

Muscogee Nation Supreme Court to decide if Creek Freedmen descendants can be citizens

The case would decide whether descendants of Muscogee Freedmen should be granted tribal citizenship.

Muscogee Supreme Court hears oral arguments over freedmen citizenship

The tribe's high court heard arguments in an appeal in a civil suit against the Muscogee Nation’s Citizenship Board in a five-year-old case over freedmen descendants’ right to tribal citizenship.

Muscogee Creek Nation Supreme Court to soon decide if freedman have full tribal citizenship

The Muscogee Creek Nation Supreme Court will soon decide whether or not the tribe’s Freedmen, also called the Black Creeks, will have full tribal citizenship or not.

Muscogee Nation Supreme Court to hear arguments over Creek Freedmen citizenship rights

After a year of delays-- Rhonda Grayson and Jeffery Kennedy are being heard in court in their long fight for citizenship rights for Creek Freedmen descendants.Previous Coverage>>>The fight to get citizenship for Creek Freedman took attorneys to the Muscogee Creek Nation Supreme CourtThe Muscogee Nation Supreme Court will hear oral arguments. The case, brought by Grayson and Kennedy, two descendants of Freedmen, is seeking to regain tribal citize…

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'Words of perpetuity': Muscogee Nation Supreme Court hears oral arguments on Freedmen citizenship

The Muscogee Nation Supreme Court heard oral arguments today over whether the nation must honor a 159-year-old treaty’s promise to grant citizenship within the nation to Muscogee Freedmen. Attorneys representing Freedmen descendants argued a 1979 constitutional change that stripped them of their citizenship violated the treaty, while attorneys representing the Muscogee Nation’s Citizenship Board argued […] The post ‘Words of perpetuity’: Muscoge…