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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.

 


Cultural Awareness: Slangs and Slurs
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Thursday, 31 August 2006
SLANG AND SLURS 

In every racial group or culture there are terms that are considered negative when used by those that are not part of the specific race or culture that are mentioned.  Native Americans sometimes refer to Indian reservations as "the REZ," but the use of that slang term by non-natives is usually considered a racial slur. The “REZ” is short for “reservation”.

 
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Weeks of Sorrows - Hurricane Katrina Reflections
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Wednesday, 30 August 2006

WEEKS OF SORROWS –HURRICANE KATRINA

 

In view of the anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster it is only in memorial that reflections are appropriate. So many sorrows and disappoints were realized during the week of the hurricane and the ensuing weeks after it. What have we learned and what hope is there to keep the African American and Native American moving forward?

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Effects of Abuse
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Monday, 28 August 2006

EFFECTS OF ABUSE

 

 

African Americans and Native Americans have suffered from many abuses. The abuses include slavery, dispossession of land, and genocide of culture. The ancestral African Americans were stolen or sold from Africa, while the Native Americans were swindled out of their land through false treaties and removal from their lands. It is these abuses that were perpetrated on both African Americans and Native Americans that have resulted in centuries of negative effects.
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CLAN WITH A “C” not a “K”
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Thursday, 24 August 2006

CLAN WITH A “C” not a “K”  

The word Clan can elicit lots of feelings and thoughts among African Americans especially when it is spoken and not written. When the word is spoken the first thing that comes to mind is the “Ku Klux Klan”. But, the distinction is that in the Native American culture, the word Clan is written with the letter “C”, not “K”. Also, in the Native American culture it has a totally different meaning.

 

 
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Foods Shared in Common
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Tuesday, 22 August 2006

FOODS SHARED IN COMMON 

Native American and African Americans have a richness of food sharing and preparation that is cultural. The story of how the Indians aided the starving Pilgrim’s by providing them with food and the know-how to grow crops is well-known. It is not only a story of food but of the character of those Indians who provided others with food.

 

 

 

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Making the Connection
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Monday, 21 August 2006

MAKING THE CONNECTION 

Most African Americans are unaware of how to begin a search for Native American heritage. It is something that seems almost impossible because there has been little to no contact with Native Americans. At least those Native Americans that recognize and appreciate their culture and ethnicity. Then, how can you get started in the journey to Native American recognition and Tribal Enrollment?

 

 
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We Can't All Be Cherokee
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Sunday, 20 August 2006

Many people that have Native American ancestry that lived in the Southeast all claim Cherokee ancestry. The Southeast states that were well known for their Indian populations consisted of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. Although the Cherokee are the largest Indian Nation that was located in the Southeast there were other Indian Nations, tribes and bands located in the Southeast states.

 

 
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