“Davis’s book is part family genealogy, part academic text and a completely sobering look at how former black slaves of Native American tribes, and mixed-race descendants, have been treated. . . . In the end, the study is a fascinating exercise in personal identity and how we regard who we are.”—The Washington Post
“Because Darnella Davis uses personal family history and documents to describe her legacies with the Creek Nation and Cherokee Freedmen, this book offers a phenomenal and unique approach to culture and land-based race relations during the Indian Allotment Era and how they affect her family. Her years of formal research and family oral histories make this book extraordinary and invaluable.”—Ron Welburn, author of Hartford’s Ann Plato and the Native Borders of Identity
