Cherokee National History Museum Reveals New Cherokee Freedmen Exhibition

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Exhibit “We Are Cherokee: Cherokee Freedmen and the Right to Citizenship” Reveals Little-Known History

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An exhibit exploring the enslavement of Africans and African-American people by the Cherokee Tribal Nation and current efforts to reconcile that history is on display at the Cherokee National History Museum in Tahlequah through April.