Athena Butler

[Athena Butler @AthenaButler_]

@estelusti @choctawnationOK @ChickasawNation @IndianCommittee @CCFAnow @AYWalton ....instead of division, we are better working together to preserve the shared history. There are many stories that need to be told (not only a selected few).

[Athena Butler @AthenaButler_]

@estelusti @choctawnationOK @ChickasawNation @IndianCommittee @CCFAnow @AYWalton Right now in Corporate America, there is an #ESG movement against business that engage with companies that have profited from slave labor. This is relevant today, because 4/5 tribes continue to discriminate against the Black Native Freedmen population.

[Athena Butler @AthenaButler_]

Congresswomen Maxine Waters' Testimony, discussing the current state of Black-Native America Freedmen https://t.co/ypd5NdHrhu #ccfanow #CivilRights #NativeAmericans

[Athena Butler @AthenaButler_]

@YabaBlay Many Native American groups use “sovereignty” to disassociate Black Natives from the tribes. Same concept though.

[Athena Butler @AthenaButler_]

@estelusti There is no such thing as "pure blood". Those communities were tri-racial and each demographic of citizens should've been granted equal status.

[Athena Butler @AthenaButler_]

@SeenaNow Open browsers are the precursor to the list.

[Oklahoma Media Center @OklaMediaCenter]

Angela Walton-Raji (lower right), a genealogical researcher working with #NativeAmerican records in #Oklahoma, gave an @OklaMediaCenter presentation “about the #Freedmen — a bilingual, bicultural and in many cases biracial people forgotten in their own state.” Thanks, @AYWalton!

[Athena Butler @AthenaButler_]

@GrandersonGroup @thelauracoates ..as a minor, in possession of an assault weapon. IJS.

[Athena Butler @AthenaButler_]

@Peeps1908 @karenhunter @michaelharriot .. “and after we rewrite history, use the church to rock you to sleep, you become the immigrants in the new stories”. Sounds about right 🤔

[Athena Butler @AthenaButler_]

@thelauracoates D- all of the above, unfortunately

[Athena Butler @AthenaButler_]

@YNB … like Black Native American members of tribal communities 🤔

[Athena Butler @AthenaButler_]

@Bakari_Sellers The devil is bold. Don’t be surprised, be bolder. Smh

[Athena Butler @AthenaButler_]

@thelauracoates … #leaders shouldn’t be able to vote against the benefits they utilize for themselves. Definitely not leadership, it’s something else 🤔

[Deborah O'Toole @writers3256]

Be the reason someone believes in good people. #mondaythoughts #MondayMotivation #MondayMorning

[Athena Butler @AthenaButler_]

@AliVelshi This is important and our groups documents how the slave-holding Native American tribes participated and benefited from it economically. https://t.co/a0BL7tYh7G

[Athena Butler @AthenaButler_]

@Dr_WillWhite @karenhunter Thank you!