America's 2nd Largest Indian Tribe Expels Blacks By NPR Staff Published September 20, 2011 at 10:00 AM MDT Twitter LinkedIn Email Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio Black Freedmen, who are descended from the slaves of Cherokee Indians, protest their expulsion on Sept. 2 outside a regional Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Muskogee, Okla. Marilyn Vann, in pink, is the president of the Descendants of Freedmen Association.Alex Kellogg Copyright 2011 NPR