Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingOpen: not yet proven
Year: 2010 · Places: Florida, Oklahoma & the Five Tribes, Africa
SUMMARYSallie Walton, Choctaw Freedman Card #777: Choctaw father, enrolled as "freedman" (Choctaw Nation, Dawes era) [Connections: Five Tribes, Florida & maroons, Nov 5, 2026]
RECORDGenealogist Angela Walton-Raji writes that her great-grandmother Sallie is on Choctaw Freedman Card #777 and that the reverse of the card shows "her father was not enslaved and he was clearly identified as having been a Choctaw Indian from the Skullyville community." Underscore News (May 2021) captions her photo: "born into slavery but whose father was a Choctaw citizen," and reports that because she is on the Freedmen roll, her descendants cannot enroll under the Choctaw Constitution. Smithsonian (2010) records Walton-Raji saying that on Choctaw and Chickasaw cards "the father was actually an Indian."
PATTERNone card, two parents; the roll followed the mother's status and the Freedmen label, not the father's nation
LENS (WW9)Renamed Black. Born Aboriginal. A Choctaw father on the back of the card, "Freedman" on the front
OPENget the card image itself (NARA M1186 / OHS Dawes search) and quote the reverse side verbatim
SOURCEChoctaw Freedmen Legacy blog, Nov. 2017; Underscore News, May 28, 2021; Smithsonian, "An Ancestry of African-Native Americans," Feb. 17, 2010. Primary: Choctaw Freedman enrollment card #777, Enrollment Cards for the Five Civilized Tribes, NARA M1186.