To All Our Choctaw Freedmen FAM & Supporters:

What’s Next???? They''re Waiting to Hear From YOU! Please Email Your Comments!! See email address: Testimony@Indian.Senate.gov 

 " Let Your Voices Be Heard!!! " Feel free to use message below or create your own. Deadline 08/27/2022

To: US Senate of Indian Affairs

From: _____YOUR First, Last NAME______

Choctaw Freedmen want to reclaim citizenship: We're now in the 21st century. Many decades have passed since the Choctaw Nation changed its constitution in 1983, where they no longer allow Choctaw Freedmen as citizens. The Choctaw Freedmen still face considerable discrimination in terms of social identity, not even having a seat at the table for an open dialogue and discussion. The Cherokee Nation, as a whole, has lifted itself into the 21st century and finally moved to address the heavy weight of racial injustice and favored equality for their Cherokee Freedmen and descendants. Now it's incumbent upon the Choctaw Nation, the US Senate of Indian Affairs Committee and the US Government; as well as, our Choctaw Freedmen Advocates and Supporters must all work together to see the once enslaved Choctaw Freedmen and their descendants today will be recognized as full citizens of the Choctaw Nation. 

Sincerely,

Your Name

***Deadline 08/27/2022***

The US Senate of Indian Affairs Committee are now taking comments regarding the Freedmen via the Oversite Hearing on the 1866 Reconstructions Treaties. Comments are being taken until 08/27/2022 deadline date. 

Two (2) leading U.S. senators on Wed., 07/27/2022 called for a review from Government Accountibility Office (GAO) to determine whether the federal government should provide health care, housing support and other services to the descendants of Black people once enslaved by Oklahoma’s Five Tribes.

The suggestion from Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, came during a historic Senate oversight hearing on the status of Freedmen and their descendants within the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee and Seminole nations.

 I appreciate you taking the time to read & act upon our request in sending  a message to Testimony@Senate.Indian.gov and the US Senate of Indian Affairs Committee Members. They're waiting to hear from "YOU"! 

Thanks for doing your part!!!

Best regards,

Doris Burris Williamson - President                                                              Choctaw Freedmen Citizenship Footprints, Inc.