March On Washington

Black Indians Announce Plans To March On Washington



"The Final End Of The Trail Of Tears"

Freedmen Descendants of the 5 Civilized Tribes, Inc. and Black
Indians United Legal Defense and Education Fund will take the final
steps of their Trail of Tears on behalf of their ANCESTORS and
themselves.



Plans are underway to continue their Journey to the States Capital,
Washington D. C. to present their Congressional Resolution Project
and Recommended Remedies in an effort to obtain a Congressional or
Presidential Resolution to Cure the Ethnic Exclusion, Racial
Discrimination and Unequal Federal Recognition and Disparate
Treatment of Black Indian Citizens of the United States.



Edgar Molette, President of Black Indians United Legal Defense and
Education Fund says "I will be wearing Black, as should all Black
Indigenous Native Americans, to demonstrate that we are in mourning
because we are still being negatively affected by the unresolved
Trail of Tears."



The journey set to start August 3 and 4th 2004 from across the United
States with all Black Indian Citizens (anyone whose grandparents said
you are part Indian) culminating with a convergence at the Reflection
Pool at the U. S. On August 6, 2004. Our Purpose is much like that
of the Late Great Dr. Martin Luther King who on August 28, 1963 in
Washington D. C., at the Lincoln Memorial; spoke in behalf of the
Negro slave when he said,



"Fivescore years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we
stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The momentous decree
came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who
had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a
joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one
hundred years later, the Negro still is not free; one hundred years
later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles
of segregation and the chains of discrimination; one hundred years
later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of
a vast ocean of material prosperity; one hundred years later, the
Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and
finds himself in exile in his own land."



The Late Great Dr. Martin Luther King could not speak for the Black
Indian Citizens of the United States for we were not included as a
part of the Emancipation Proclamation, rather our plight was
addressed and rights were granted thru the ratified Treaties of 1866
with the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Cherokee and Seminole nations
commonly known as the Five Civilized Tribes.



And in the same words that the Late Great Dr. Martin Luther King said
in his magnificent speech "I have a Dream";



"So we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition" that has
been allowed to go on since `the signing of the 1866 Treaties'. "It
is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note
(Treaties of 1866) in so far as her citizens of color (Black Indians)
are concerned" Instead of honoring this sacred obligation. America
has given the Black Indian people a bad check; a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."



Eleanor "Gypsy" Wyatt, Chairman of the Freedmen Descendants of the 5 Civilized Tribes, Incorporated and Angela Molette, Vice-Chairman
explains that "not only were tribes of Black Indigenous Native
Americans and "Dark Peoples" living freely and unfettered in the
United States from what is now known as Florida to America's Interior
(North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Kansas and even remote
Montana) they were also historically documented as having dwelled
here as early as the year 1540 by the Explorer Hernando DeSoto and
his men. Some of those Black Indigenous Native Americans from the
Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes migrated out of Mexico some 5,000 to
6,000 years ago and are the authors the Mobilian Language, the mother tongue of Choctaw and Chickasaw Lingua and the most widely used Trade Language of Pre-European America." The descendants (our ANCESTORS) of those Black Indigenous Native Americans were included prominently in the Treaties of 1866 after European Contact as "Slaves" of other Indian Tribes. However, according to the Treaties, the Black Indians of the 5 Civilized Tribes were to be treated equally, without differentiation and given land, rights and accommodation as all other Indigenous Native American peoples now Federally Recognized.



Sadly, Federal Agencies involved and charged with Fiduciary and Trust
Responsibilities of the Indian Nations since 1824 have encouraged,
formulated and have stood idly by as they Unequally Federally
Recognized Black Indians of the 5 Civilized Tribes, and allowed the
Tribal Governments of the 5 Civilized Tribes to hide behind and use
their Sovereignty to Ethnically Exclude, Racially Discriminate and
nearly annihilate the Ethnic Class of Black Indian Citizens of the
United States. Driven by Greed and Fueled by Ancient Jim Crow
Sentiment, those Agencies with their Genocidal Policies and carefully
crafted Practices and Sleight of Hand Maneuvers in rewriting Tribal
Constitutions, harbored Genealogical Records maintained by the Tribes
and re-drafted Citizenship Requirements to Prevent Black Indians from
attaining in their self determined efforts modern citizenship,
learning, communing and reconnecting with their True Sovereign
Ancestral Heritage in violation and clear defiance of U.S.
Constitutional, Civil Rights and International Laws, as well as the
undefeatable Guarantees of the Treaties of 1866.



In using the words of the Late Great Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Eleanor "Gypsy" Wyatt states, "we the Sovereign Unified Collective of
Freedmen Descendants of the 5 Civilized Tribes have presented to ALL
our Congressional leaders including but not limited to the
Department of Justice, Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian
Affairs, Secretary of the Interior, the Office of Tribal Justice and
the Sovereign Tribal Governments of The Five Civilized Tribes,
Cherokee Nation, Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation, Creek Nation,
Seminole Nation, and their Predecessors, successors and/or assigns
with our Congressional Resolution Project and Recommended Remedies.



On August 7, 2004 we will present the project to this Nation and the
United Nations on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. For any person
of color whose grandmother told you, you are of Indian descent you
need to get there"? 138 years of disenfranchisement MUST END.



Oleta Adams, Kansas City's great Jazz singer, in her song "Get There"
sings you can get there by Railway, Trailway, Air Plane, Caravan,
Sail Boat, climb a tree and swing rope to rope, Wind Surf, Carpet
ride or Balloon, it does not matter how you get there but get there
if you can. And as Charles Dutton would say "Get on the Bus".



UPDATES to our Continued Trail of Tears: will be posted on the
following web sites. Start saving your funds to travel the last
miles of our Trail of Tears.

http://home.kc.rr.com/blackindians/

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ewyatt/_borders/