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**American Indian involvement in Freemasonry** They were let into the lodges but blacks were and are separate. Most are members of Prince Hall temples… “In stark contrast to this positive stereotype of Indians that tied them to the republican virtue he saw as foundational to American identity, **Jefferson saw Blacks as being an emotional void, empty of and insensible to the sensibility that defined the nation**. >**Black Americans, as noted above, were excluded from mainstream Freemasonry even though certain Indians were allowed access to its inner echelons.”** (page 4) https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/preview/467883/content-hull_9681.pdf The majority of the Native American leaders in Indian Territory were Freemasons. - “The Cherokee leader John Ross and his Princeton-educated nephew William contributed to the 1849 founding of their tribe's first lodge.” https://academic.oup.com/california-scholarship-onli