Freedmen descendants in Oklahoma tribes are hoping to see an increase in health care access and eligibility by the Indian Health Service.
One Freedmen activist group is continuing the battle for equal health care access and citizenship rights, while Seminole Freedmen first denied health care from their tribal clinic were declared eligible this month by Indian Health Service (IHS).
The directive to serve Seminole Freedmen came after IHS denied COVID-19 vaccines to Freedmen descendants.
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