February 2012
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Native Trailblazers podcast, “The Weyanoke...
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SundayMorning Live podcast on “Black...
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Got Any Suggestions?
Hey ya’ll! I hope everyone is doing well!
There have been a lot of new followers lately and I thought now would be a great time to welcome everyone and invite you all to contribute to the blog. I do my best to post anything relevant that I come across but I’m sure all of you have content and ideas too.
What else would you like to see on the blog? Feedback is always appreciated. You...
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chocol8luv:
“What motivates people who look “black” to claim to be Indian? When answered in a manner divorced from lived experience, the question produces many misplaced expectations about black and Indian mixed-bloods and demonstrates the fixity with which American race making practices ascribe blackness. The question is central because it engages the problematic American cultural practice of...
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Loving v. Virginia Comes to Life in Tribeca Film →
WNYC | Jami Floyed | 04/22/11
The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival is in full swing, here in New York, celebrating it’s tenth year with a bevy of science fiction, drama and even horror films to capture the imagination. But the genre in which I am most interested, this time around, is a love story - disguised as a documentary.
It’s called “The Loving Story: A Long Walk Home,” and it tells the...
“One of the interesting things about White Historiography, this Eurocentric...”
– Jan Carew, from Black Seminoles (via daydreamingaimlessly)
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seminole swagger.
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Science 13 February 1891: "the moral and physical... →
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AFRICAN AND AMERICAN: THE CONTACT OF NEGRO AND INDIAN
article by white anthropologist detailing black and native intermarriage and interaction with an emphasis on the east coast.
January 2012
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MacArthur ‘Genius’ Tiya Miles does...
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ICT: Cherokee Freedmen: One Year Later →
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Watchchocol8luv:
(via Black Indians in America story Video)
Submitted by chocol8luv
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“If I did not see light in the story, I could not tell it.”
– —Tiya Miles
Our interview with the public historian who is unearthing the “complex interrelationships between African American and Cherokee people in pre-colonial America” is in the final stages of production. Look for our interview next week.
~Trent Gilliss, senior editor
(via beingblog)
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TalkingFeather Radio: Red/Black: Related Through...
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Red/Black: Related Through History
Eiteljorg Museum | Indianapolis, Indiana | FEB 12 - AUG 7, 2011
Explore the interwoven histories of African Americans and Native Americans with Red/Black: Related Through History. This groundbreaking exhibition is the result of a partnership between the Eiteljorg Museum and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). Red/Black includes the NMAI panel exhibit...
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The Buffalo Post: Radmilla Cody - An unusual Miss...
By Leo W. Banks, of High Country News | March 7, 2011
Grand Falls, Arizona
Radmilla Cody knows the way home. It’s not an easy journey. The dirt roads are canoe-shaped and gouged by rain. They curl around hills and plunge into deep draws, finally bringing us to the family homestead near Grand Falls, on the Navajo Reservation.
Cody grew up on these lonesome sage flats. Her Navajo mother, ...
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The Root: Black, Red and Proud
Radmilla Cody’s crowning as Miss Navajo Nation in 1997 triggered an outcry and a conversation about what it means to be Native American. Now she’s featured in a museum exhibit showing the rarely told history of African-Native Americans.
Cynthia Gordy | February 22, 2011
Radmilla Cody’s crowning as Miss Navajo Nation in 1997 triggered an outcry and a conversation about...
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1876: The Year When Things Went from Bad to Worse...
William Loren Katz | 1/23/12
As 2011 ended the U.S. Senate voted 92 to 6 for the McCain-Levin amendments [S 1867] to the National Defense Authorization Act. In the name of fighting terrorism, an astounding majority of Democratic and Republican leaders granted unlimited authority to the president [and future presidents] and the Army to arrest anyone, citizen or foreigner, here or abroad,...
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Garifuna language →
djturtlep:
Garifuna is an Arawakan language spoken in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala and Nicaragua by the Garifuna people. Their language is primarily derived from Arawak and Carib, with English, French and Spanish to a lesser degree. One interesting feature of Garifuna is a vocabulary split between terms used only by men and terms used only by women. This does not however affect the entire...
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Town of Corozal
anemergingphotographer:
Top: Garifuna man in costume for town fiesta; Middle: girl in hammock; Bottom: fisherman’s canoes on the beach
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NPR: Garifuna Ethnic Group Seeks Voice In New York... →
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Cayo Chachahuate - Cayo Chachahuate
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This is a small island where some Garifuna people live. You can walk around the perimeter of the island in about 20 minutes. Most of the people are fisherman.
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The New York Times takes a look at how complicated the US Census can be for Caribbean-Americans. For example, the Garifunas, who are part African, part Caribbean and part Central American, don’t fit into any box.
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Mardi Gras Indians
New Orleans, with its extraordinarily complex cultural history, is the most important city in early jazz history. The Mardi Gras Indians are part of a large cultural phenomenon that - viewed in the historical crosscurrents of indigenous and African cultures in the Caribbean, the Atlantic Islands, and Latin America (and mumming traditions of Ireland and Europe)- bears a significant though...
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Native American Roots and The Creole Culture
Louisiana Creole culture has benefited from the contributions of many cultural groups. One of the least known of these contributing groups are the Native American tribes and communities in the across the state.
To discuss the Native roots of Creole culture program guests will include: Dr. Andrew Jolivette associate professor and...
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Rebellion: John Horse and the Black Seminoles →
Explore the story of John Horse and the Black Seminoles, the first black rebels to beat American slavery and leaders of the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history
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