Eleanor “Gypsy” Wyatt – Black Commentator

Eleanor "Gypsy" Wyatt

Eleanor "Gypsy" Wyatt is a second generation Freedmen Descendant of the Chickasaw/Choctaw Nations. She is a sixth generation by blood, although not acknowledge by either the Chickasaw or Choctaw Nations. She is a Degreed Registered Nurse who retired this year to work fulltime to bring the Freedmen issues to the public's awareness. She has been researching the Five Civilized Tribes since 1985 and has for the past year developed a resource web site for Black Indians particular to Indian Territory/Oklahoma. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ewyatt/_borders/

Guest Commentary

By Eleanor "Gypsy" Wyatt Guest Commentator

Editors: The Native American presence in many African America family trees is well known, both through conventional documentation and oral history. Less widely understood are the “Black Indians,” the African-descended people who were joined with the “Five Civilized Tribes” of the southeastern U.S. under a legal status that the U.S. government recognized as slavery –…

Editors: The Native American presence in many African America family trees is well known, both through conventional documentation and oral history. Less widely understood are the…

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