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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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Paul Cuffe, Sr., one of the most important and least known of the anti-slavery leaders in the United States, was the son of a freed African slave and a Wampanoag Indian woman from Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. He rose from poverty to become one of the wealthiest men of color in the United States by the first decade of the nineteenth century, his fortune based on skill as a shipbuilder and merchant-captain. Through his biography we see his courage in expressing his passionate opposition to slavery that led to the organization of Sierra Leone on the west coast of Africa as a home for manumitted slaves. |
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Thursday, 25 May 2006 |
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When searching for Native American ancestry the first tendency is to try to determine if you or someone in your family looks like a Native. This tendency can certainly lead you down the wrong path in your search. Yes, there are some physical characteristics that have been labeled as “Indian”, but over the years and with the mixing of the races, finding purity in physical appearance can be very difficult. Also, with television and movie portrayals of Natives looking very Anglo-Saxon in their skin tones many have been fooled to think that Natives were only white or almost white in pigmentation or skin coloring. This is another stereotype. Don’t believe it! When I asked a Cherokee elder what is the skin color of Natives, he stated, “Natives are the color of the soil”. In other words, they come in all the colorings –deep rich black as the Alaskan soil, chocolate brown as the Connecticut soil, copper red as the Alabama soil, caramel as the Arizona soil, tan as the New Mexican soil, and every color in between. Remember Natives are/were “people of color”! |
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Wednesday, 24 May 2006 |
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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Wednesday, 24 May 2006 |
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Many African Americans have family stories that were passed down from one generation to the next which include references to Native American ancestry. These stories were passed down from the elders in a matter-of-fact manner. The conversations went something like this, “you know your great grandmother was an Indian”, or “remember grandpa. He was an Indian”. These facts were accepted without dispute or fanfare as simply another part of the rich African heritage and then African American life. But, as time went on curiosity about the Indian family roots generally took hold and evidence of the claims of Native American ancestry was sought. In reflection, it would only stand to reason that African American and Native American ancestral paths crossed. Both of these people were held in bondage and servitude. Each peoples having a legacy of pain at the hands of European influences. Black men and women were brought to the Americas and enslaved to work a land that was stolen from Red men and women. As a result from that time until eternity their ancestries and destinies were as one. |
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Monday, 09 August 2004 |
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At the time of Columbus, the subcontinent of India was referred to as Hindustan or the Deccan. The European term for indigenous peoples all over the world was "Indians" from the Spanish "In Dios" meaning "God's people". |
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Monday, 09 August 2004 |
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The first slaves in the "New World" were Indians. However, colonists found them difficult to contain -- they knew the surrounding countryside and those who had not been captured often organized successful rescue efforts. For a time, slave merchants continued to raid Native American communities along the central and southern shores of the Eastern Seaboard and to encourage local warriors to barter captives they would otherwise kill for European trade goods. The women and children the merchants acquired were sold alongside Africans to buyers in the north while the men were shipped to plantations in the Caribbean. |
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Monday, 09 August 2004 |
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Native American people don't live in teepees, hunt with bows and arrows and cook over open fires. Our lives reflect the same diversity as any other cultural group in America. We are wealthy, middle class and impoverished. We are educated and uneducated. We are employed and unemployed. We are Americans. |
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