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Many people believe racial and ethnic groups in North America have always lived as separately as they do now. However, segregation was neither practical nor preferable when people who were not native to this continent began arriving here. Europeans needed Indians as guides, trade partners and military allies. They needed Africans to tend their crops and to build an infrastructure.
Later, as the new American government began to thrive, laws were drafted to protect the land and property the colonists had acquired. These laws strengthened the powers of slave owners, limited the rights of free Africans and barred most Indian rights altogether. Today, black, white and red Americans still feel the aftershock of those laws.
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The Black Native American Association (BNA) is an intertribal group of people with African-American and Native American heritage who organized in the late summer of 1992. Due to the adverse impact of past and present governmental policies, the Black Native American Association does not mimic 'Blood Quantum Police" tactics. The BNA does not require proof of tribal enrollment or recognition. Learn more about the Black Native American Association at:http://www.bnaa.org |
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 |
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NATION, TRIBE, AND BAND When beginning a search for Native American ancestry there are several terms that are important to know. These terms are “Nation, Tribe, and Band”. Native Americans are generally associated with these three terms which are often confused. As you search for your Native American affiliation be sure to ask about your Nation, Tribe, and/or Band. |
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Tuesday, 01 April 2008 |
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Descendants of Cherokee Freedmen keep on trying today to be citizens of the Cherokee Nation. Freedmen had already been adopted by the Nation in accordance with the Treaty of 1866 with full rights. The treaty is being completely disregarded in favor of the Dawes rolls. The rolls included degrees of Indian blood for the native Cherokee including adopted Delaware Indians with no Cherokee blood, but not the Freedmen with Cherokee blood. |
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Monday, 12 June 2006 |
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Can you identify the historic Natives shown in this article?  Your choices of identity are: Sitting Bull Chief Joseph Geronimo Red Cloud |
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Monday, 31 December 2007 |
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Happy New Years in 2008! It’s a new year and another opportunity to resolve to be better, do more, and give more of yourself. What is immediately obvious about these resolutions are that they are all about “you”, but not in a negative way. But what is negative is that these resolutions are not very specific. |
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Saturday, 22 December 2007 |
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From a common foe, Africans and Native Americans found the first link of friendship and earliest motivation for an alliance. They discovered they shared some vital life views. Both Africans and Native Americans found they shared a belief in cooperation, rather than competition and rivalry. Beyond individual human differences in personality, generally speaking, each race was proud, but neither was weighed down by prejudice. Skill, friendship and trust, not skin color or race was important. That Native Americans and Africans merged by choice, invitation, and bonds of trust and friendship, cannot be understated. It explains why families who share this biracial inheritance have never forgotten these family ties. Since 1502, Black Indians have been reported, documented, painted, and photographed coast to coast from Hudson's Bay to Tierra del Fuego. In the decades between the 1619 Jamestown settlement and the 'Great Treaty Signings' of the 1880's, Black Indian Societies were reported in more than 15 states from New York to South Carolina as well as the thirty Caribbean Islands 'blessed' by European colonization. Excerpt from article by: By Nomad WinterhawkFor more information see: http://www.africanamericans.com/BlackIndians.htm |
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Monday, 03 December 2007 |
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During this season of giving one of the typical gifts is books. When giving books it is important to ensure the books are accurate and properly describe the people, events, and topics listed within them. So, if you intend to give books that will help others learn about Native Americans be sure to check this list so that you will give gifts worth giving. |
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