In Oklahoma, Juneteenth highlights tribal slavery descendants’ fight for recognition and citizenship by: GRAHAM LEE BREWER, Associated Press. Posted: Jun 17, 2025 / 04:10 PM EDT.

In Oklahoma, Juneteenth highlights tribal slavery descendants’ fight for recognition and citizenship by: GRAHAM LEE BREWER, Associated Press. Posted: Jun 17, 2025 / 03:10 PM CDT.

Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, but thousands of people in Oklahoma are still fighting for full citizenship in the tribal ...

Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, but thousands of people in Oklahoma are still fighting for full citizenship in the tribal… ...

In Oklahoma, Juneteenth highlights tribal slavery descendants’ fight for recognition and citizenship by: GRAHAM LEE BREWER, Associated Press. Posted: Jun 17, 2025 / 03:10 PM CDT.

Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, but thousands of people in Oklahoma are still fighting for full citizenship in the tribal ...

While many across the country recognize Juneteenth as the end to the institution of slavery in America in 1865, some tribal nations in Oklahoma continued to own slaves until the following year, 1866.