Angela Y Walton-Raji

For more than thirty years, Angela Walton-Raji, an Oklahoma Freedmen descendant, has emerged as one of the nation's authorities about Black Indians of the Five Tribes. She has authored three previous books about this history and has spoken nationally on this subject and methods of documenting Freedmen families from the Five Tribes of Oklahoma. This will be her fourth book, where she compiled family stories from descendants of Freedmen from each of the Five Tribes: Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw,...See more

For more than thirty years, Angela Walton-Raji, an Oklahoma Freedmen descendant, has emerged as one of the nation's authorities about Black Indians of the Five Tribes. She has authored three previous books about this history and has spoken nationally on this subject and methods of documenting Freedmen families from the Five Tribes of Oklahoma. This will be her fourth book, where she compiled family stories from descendants of Freedmen from each of the Five Tribes: Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and Seminole Nations. See less