Now that the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Supreme Court has solidified its ruling in favor of granting citizenship to descendants of Muscogee Freedmen, an outreach effort to help eligible people apply for it ramps up.

One application education event came on Aug. 21 inside Okmulgee's St. Matthews Missionary Baptist Church.

"There's a lot of folks who have lots of questions. They're excited about it," President of Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band Rhonda Grayson told 2 News. "We're just ready to take our rightful place into the tribe."

Meetings like this one and another planned Aug. 23 in Oklahoma City are designed to reawaken heritage - in the legal sense.

"It's not like, you know, we are 'outsiders'," Reanna King said. "This is something that's ours by birth."

King attended the meeting w

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