May 2012
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American Indians Living on Reservations... →
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The Buffalo Soldiers
a-lostbird:
by Herman J. Viola, indiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas (p.53-55).
(Unidentified buffalo soldier, between 1860-1870).
Plains Indians coined the nickname “buffalo soldiers” to identify the Black troopers who manned several of the military garrisons in the American West after the Civil War. It is believed the term originated with the Cheyenne Indians—others...
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sunra:
In the century following Columbus’s landing, millions of Native Americans died from a combination of European diseases, harsh treatment, and murder. Africans took their places in the mines and fields of the New World. The 80 million Native Americans alive in 1492 became only 10 million alive a century later. But the 10,000 Africans working in the Americas in 1527 had, by the end of the...
Cedric Sunray: Racist tendencies common in too...
deluxvivens:
Last month’s racially motivated killings in Oklahoma, perpetrated by Cherokee Indian Jake England and his white roommate against members of North Tulsa’s Black community, once again bring to light the prejudicial tendencies held by many in our Indian communities.
This reality is the literal “Negro Elephant in the Room,” which many tribal communities attempt to pass off as issues of...
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rip don littlecloud.
deluxvivens:
deluxvivens:
The man in this picture, taken at a powwow a few years ago, is Seminole indian Don Littlecloud. He passed away this weekend after a battle with cancer.
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Cedric Sunray: Racist tendencies common in too...
deluxvivens:
Last month’s racially motivated killings in Oklahoma, perpetrated by Cherokee Indian Jake England and his white roommate against members of North Tulsa’s Black community, once again bring to light the prejudicial tendencies held by many in our Indian communities.
This reality is the literal “Negro Elephant in the Room,” which many tribal communities attempt to pass off as issues of...
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Watchlhaaff:
HEARING RADMILLA
Directed by Angela Webb.
(Documentary/82 minutes/USA/2009/Seattle premiere/general audience)
A portrait of the first biracial Miss Navajo Nation, 1997-98. Her promising singing career was ended by serious legal and personal problems.
Saturday, May 7 at the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival. 4:00 PM.
Central Cinema, 1411 21st Avenue . $8 general...
“The first evidence of Native American and African unity appears in a l503...”
– William Katz (via deluxvivens)
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“If we are to make sense of this broad and deeply set pattern of anti-Black...”
– Brian Klopotek, indiVisble: African-Native American lives in the Americas, p. 86 (via a-lostbird)
“It is impossible to say to which human family we belong. The larger part of the...”
– Simon Bolivar at the Congress of Angostura in 1819.(via Black Indians by William Loren Katz)
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Joseph Yoakum-Outsider
imablackpostmodernist:
Joseph Elmer Yoakum
(February 20, 1890 – December 25, 1972) was a self-taught artist of African-American and Native American descent who drew landscapes in a unique and highly individual style. He was 76 when he started to record his memories in the form of imaginary landscapes, and he produced over 2000 drawings during the last decade of his life. His work is an...
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Watchdeluxvivens:
Julianne Jennings speaks with Penny Gamble Williams on Mixed Blood Indians of Southern New England.
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