The Helios Biblios Hour :pt3 Black Hi/story /UNCUT w/Chief Warhorse

Chief Elwin 'Warhorse' Gillum of the Tchefuncta nation. The Tchefuncta Nation was provided a three-digit code for its members to use on the census forms. This will allow them to track the count of members who reside in about 30 states. Only people who had their paperwork in order and confirmed their affiliation with the tribe, were given the code.Members of the Tchefuncta Nation, made up of the descendents of 125 families of Chahta, Cherokee and Creek ancestry.“In the 1800s, they started to send us to Oklahoma,” as part of the forced relocation known as the Trail of Tears. “Then in the 1900s, Indians who weren’t on reservations began to loose their rights. You couldn’t be American Indian in St. Tammany Parish so you became ‘colored’ or ‘mulato,’” “This happened not only to my tribe, but I’ve talked to chiefs around the country and that’s what happened to them.Cyril Neville has been named ambassador for the Chahta Indians. Chief Warhorse Elwin Gillum said of the choice of Neville: 'I knew it had to be a strong-willed person.'Neville's new role as ambassador will be to speak for the tribes that are centered in St. Tammany and include descendents of the 125 Chahta, Creek and Cherokee who did not leave during the forced relocation under Andrew Jackson, called the Trail of Tears.the 10th Cavalry Regiment is a unit of the United States Army. Formed as a segregated African-American unit, the 10th Cavalry was one of the original "Buffalo Soldier" regiments in the post-Civil War Regular Army The 10th Cavalry continued to fight Apaches after Geronimo's surrender in 1886. A detachment of 10th Cavalry would fight one of their last battles.