Black Creeks are still fighting for their rightful citizenship to be honored — even after the historic July 23 Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling ordering the Nation to reinstate their tribal rights. According to the Treaty of 1866, Article II, Black Creeks were guaranteed full citizenship and equal rights within the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. That promise has never changed — only the treatment of the people it was meant to protect.

This moment is bigger than a court decision. It’s about upholding treaty law, correcting generations of exclusion, and standing with a community that has never stopped fighting for what is already theirs.

Send a message of support to Black Creeks as they continue pressing for full citizenship rights, recognition, and dignity. Your words matter — they remind families that they’re not standing alone, and that the world is watching for meaningful action.

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  • "As Creek Freedmen, we’ve always carried the truth of who we are. Today, that truth was recognized. This decision affirms our place in the nation — not as outsiders, but as citizens,” Solomon-Simmons said in a press release. “We’re ready to walk forward together, guided by our elders, our communities, and our shared hope for what comes next.”

    Attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons, Lead Attorney for Rhonda Grayson and Jeff Kennedy

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  • "I applaud the judge’s ruling to grant Black Native American Freedmen their rights to full citizenship. These are rights promised to them through the 1866 treaties. After decades of racial discrimination and injustice, this ruling affirms the Freedmen’s rightfully and legally-guaranteed claims to human dignity and equal recognition — rights that have been unjustly and cruelly withheld for far too long."

    United States Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA)

    Read the House Article

  • “The Nation has urged in McGirt — and the U.S. Supreme Court agreed — that the treaty is in fact intact and binding upon both the Nation and the United States, having never been abrogated in full or in part by Congress,” she wrote. “To now assert that Article II of the treaty does not apply to the Nation would be disingenuous.”

    Muscogee (Creek) Nation District Judge Denette Mouser

    Read the AP article

  • “You can’t claim and bound all of your arguments for your people in a treaty from the federal government and claim this is the supreme law of the land” while intentionally disenrolling Freedmen,”

    Palmer Scott, Graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Law

    Read the Black Wall Street Times Article

  • “It’s 100 percent anti-Black discrimination,” he told CNN. “They’re telling you that if you’re Black and/or (had) enslaved (ancestors), you can’t be a member of our nation.”

    Attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons, lead attorney for Rhonda Grayson and Jeff Kennedy, Black Creeks

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  • “While this victory honors our past, it also offers a meaningful opportunity for healing and reconciliation,” said Grayson in a statement to the Associated Press. “It’s time now to come together, rebuild trust, and move forward as one united Nation, ensuring future generations never again face exclusion or erasure.

    Rhonda Grayson, Co-founder of Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band and Plaintiff

    Read the Guardian Article