tribe that included black as well as white and brown members. The treaty had required the Seminole to emancipate their slaves, and to give the Seminole Freedmen full citizenship and voting rights. The BIA stopped federal funding for a time for services and programs to the Seminole. The individual Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood (CDIB) is based on registration of ancestors in the Indian lists of the Dawes Rolls. Although the BIA could not issue CDIBs to the Seminole Freedmen, in 2003 the agency recognized them as members of the tribe and advised them of continuing benefits for which they were eligible. Journalists theorized the decision could affect the similar case in which the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma excluded Cherokee Freedmen as members unless they could document a direct Native American ancestor on the Dawes Rolls. Legacy and honors Fort Mose Historic State Park in Florida is a National Historic Landmark at the site of the first free black community in the United States A large sign at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park commemorates the site where hundreds of African Americans escaped to freedom in the Bahamas in the early 1820s, as part of the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Trail. A sign at the Manatee Mineral Spring marks the location where traces of Angola were uncovered Red Bays, Andros, the historic settlement of black Seminoles in the Bahamas, and Nacimiento, Mexico are being recognized as related international sites on the Network to Freedom Trail. Notable black Seminoles Dosar Barkus, band leader from 1892 through allotment, namesake for contemporary band Cesar Bruner, band leader from Reconstruction through statehood, namesake for contemporary band Eugene Bullard, one of the first black American military pilots John Horse, leader at the time of removal, founder of Wewoka, and co-leader of 1849 escape to northern Mexico Sergeant John Ward Pompey Factor and Isaac Payne - Medal of Honor recipients for their service in the 24th Infantry. See also Afro-Seminole Creole black Indians in the United States black Seminole Scouts Ian Hancock List of topics related to black and African people One-Drop Rule Zambo Notes References Primary sources Mahon, John K. (1967). History of the Second Seminole War 1835-1842 (Revised Edition). University of Florida Press. McCall, George A. Letters From the Frontiers. Philadelphia: Lippincott & Co., 1868. Miller, David Hunter, ed. Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America. 2