Historical Continuity, Lineage & Treaty Foundations

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The Sharakhi Indigenous Tribal Nation (SITN) represents a living continuum of Indigenous peoples whose presence, identity, and cultural systems predate the formation of modern state and federal governments. SITN’s history is not reconstructed from theory or revival movements, but preserved through documented lineage, land records, oral tradition, and historical continuity maintained across generations.

SITN families remained present on their ancestral homelands through periods of colonization, forced migration, slavery, and racial reclassification. Despite these pressures, Indigenous identity, kinship systems, and land relationships endured.

The Sharakhi Indigenous Tribal Nation (SITN) maintains a documented historical record demonstrating Indigenous continuity through lineage, geography, and lawful documentation. These records are preserved within the Nation’s archives and include affidavits, federal records, land patents, treaty references, and oral histories transmitted across generations.

Lineage & Identity Continuity

Historical records reflect that Indigenous families were frequently reclassified in state and federal documents during the 17th -18th–20th centuries, often recorded under racial categories such as “Indian" Mulatto “Negro” or “Black.” This administrative reclassification occurred during periods of slavery, Jim Crow, and eugenics policy and did not extinguish Indigenous bloodline, kinship, or community continuity.

SITN documentation addresses this history through:

Affidavits of lineage and identity continuity

Federal and state census records across multiple generations

Indigenous oral history preserved within family lines

Geographic continuity across regions associated with Creek (Muscogee), Choctaw, Seminole, and related Indigenous migration paths

Bloodline - Hematology records

These records are preserved as historical evidence, not assertions of exclusion or conflict.