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
anemergingphotographer:
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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Watchjnkay:
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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Watchdeluxvivens:
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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Island Smith (1877-?)
The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed:
Island Smith was a celebrated African Creek native healer (or root doctor) who practiced his art in the hinterlands southwest of Okmulgee in the years after Oklahoma statehood. Smith was born outside of Taft, Oklahoma in 1877 to Hannah (later Robinson) and Isaac Smith. His father died when Smith was a small boy and his mother remarried and the...
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A call out to my Black NDNs: What's good?
adailyriot:
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more or less trying to get a feel of how large the black ndn community is here on tumblr.
give me a shout by reblogging this or replying to it.
Where you at, ya’ll?
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“Accumulated by the federally appointed Dawes Commission between 1898 and 1914,...”
– Smithsonian: National Museum of the American Indian, indiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americans, p. 82. (via daydreamingbookworm)
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A Daily Riot.: Excerpt: Black Indians: Their... →
adailyriot:
To an extent not revealed in Hollywood frontier movies, slave labor built the earliest European communities in the south. From 1690 to 1720, Africans cleared land, introduced African rice culture, navigated river vessels, and delivered mail in the Carolinas. Only the most trustworthy slaves were…
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A Daily Riot.: Excerpt: Black Indians: If You Knew... →
adailyriot:
In 1774 patriot James Madison wrote about a slave revolt: “It is prudent such attempts should be concealed as well as suppressed.” The Black Indian story has been treated as though it were a massive slave rebellion. Its final burial came at the hands of a later white generation who shaped a…
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Watchdeluxvivens:
Julianne Jennings speaks with Penny Gamble Williams on Mixed Blood Indians of Southern New England.
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Excerpt: Black Indians: Their Mixing Is To Be...
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… Since labor was in short supply in British America, the earliest colonist enslaved first Indians and then Africans. Since unending bondage did no exist in English law, the first form was called “indenture” and lasted for about seven years. “Indentured servants” of any color could be mistreated while in service, have theri personal life regulated, and their time extended by scheming...
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African-Native American Lives in Massachusetts
Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond Radio Program ~
African-Native American Lives in Massachusetts
Tuesday, January 3, 2011 at 4-4:55pm EST on WESU, Middletown, CT (88.1), USA
Listen online while the show airs: www.wesufm.org
Join your host, J Kēhaulani Kauanui, for an episode that features Ramona Peters (Nosapocket) and Rae Gould speaking about their historical and ...
