The Experiment Podcast: How the Cherokee Nation Confronted Its Role in the Slave Trade

From girlhood, Marilyn Vann knew she was Black and she was Cherokee. But when she later applied for Cherokee Nation citizenship, she was denied. A journey into Cherokee history revealed that Vann and her family are descended from people who were enslaved by the Cherokee Nation. They were freed after the Civil War, but that wasn’t the end of their struggle. In 1866, the Cherokee Nation made a promise—a promise of citizenship for these “freedmen” and their descendants. But in the years that followed, that promise would be at the center of a battle between civil rights and sovereignty.

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