Recommended Readings

I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land by Alaina Roberts

The Chickasaw Freedmen: A People without a Country by Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr.

Enslaved on the Trail of Tears: Race, Removal, and the Transformation of Indian Territory by Terry Ligon

Braided Roots: The Interweaving of History, Family, and a Father’s Love by Pasha Westbrook

Stronger Than by Stacy Wells and Nikki Grimes

Oklahoma Freedmen of the Five Tribes by Angela Walton-Raji

Black Indian Slave Narratives by Patrick Minges

Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South by Barbara Krauthamer

Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country by Fay A. Yarbrough