Blackfoot.Most of the tribes here hate each other with a Passion,its funny to me,they all bi*** about white racism but they hate other tribes.Im no more welcome on the res than any other white man,if you dont look Indian and drive a rez rocket you dont fit in!That other snake is a corn snake i think,idk...
Yeah. The tribes here in Oklahoma aren't too passionate about not liking members of other tribes, but there is some bias. The Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles are all basically the same people with the same or very similar languages. And there has been substantial mixing. (My adopted son has a Chickasaw card through his daddy, but his mother carried some degree of Cherokee blood. His card indicates that he is 1/16th Chick. If my great-great-grandmother was a full blood, which is something I'm not sure of, I'm 1/16th Cherokee.) The Cherokees sometimes show some bias: I had one young Cherokee man tell me once that, although white men could learn to speak Cherokee, other Indians could not--which I doubt very much to be the truth!
Back in the early 1960's, when I was dispatcher for the Okmulgee, Oklahoma, police department, the government brought a bunch of Navajos and Apaches from their reservations to the technical school at Okmulgee. They would come to town on Friday and Saturday night and mix it up with the local Creeks and Choctaws and Seminoles. We would have to pen them up over night.
Just recently, the Cherokees attempted to throw their Freedmen out of the tribe. Freedmen are the descendants of slaves that belonged to Cherokees. (The tribes that were moved from the southern states to Oklahoma are often referred to as "the five civilized tribes." And, depending on your definition of "civilized," they were. Some had plantations and slaves. They were moved to Oklahoma, not because they were going on the war path and scalping whites, but because they had land their white neighbors wanted. They took their case to the Supreme Court, and the court ruled that their removal was illegal. I think it was Andrew Jackson, an old Indian fighter, who, as president, stated, "John Marshall [chief justice] has made his decision. Let him enfore it!" And the five tribes were removed to Oklahoma in spite of the Supreme Court.) Many of the black Cherokees have more Cherokee blood than the white Cherokees--like me. And I've known blacks that were "not pround" of their Cherokee ancestry.
I believe that the last Indian vs. Indian war in Oklahoma was between the Cherokees and the Osages. When I was editor of the Claremore Progress a few years back, I was told about a county farmer who regularly plowed up relics--like old rife barrells--where the last battle was pitched. And many Cherokees and Osages still have no use for each other.
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