Ahmed_El-Shabazz
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Re: Black Seminoles
« Reply #4 on: Oct 9th, 2007, 4:50am » |
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Salaam—Here is more info on the Afro-Indians————William Loren Katz “Black Indians” a hidden heritage.
Chief Black Thunder
Black Indians want a place in history
In April 2002, celebrations of the 500 years of black Indian culture are planned for sites of major historical and cultural significance – the pilgrimage of unification itself; an honoring of ‘Mother Life’By Nomad Winterhawk It happened that life crossed Africans and Native Americans together into one circle.
This was in April, 1502, when the first Africans kidnapped were brought to Hispanola to serve as slaves. Some escaped and somewhere inland on Santo Dominico life birthed the first circle of Black Indians.
Some black Indians have a dual ancestry of African and Native Americanbloodlines. Others are black people who have lived with Native Americans and maintain their cultural-ceremonial traditions.
The seizure and mistreatment of Native Americans and their land, and the enslavement of Native Americans and Africans, were the two parallel institutions that resulted in the Black Indian culture.
Water color from 1735 showing black Indians, Native Americans and an African together
Though neither white, Christian, nor European, together they created communities of permanence, that included people from overseas. The early history of these communities provides examples of two diverse people living together in peace.
Exclusion from most written historical texts does not erase or deny the facts. Only the absence of true understanding of the relationships red and black peoples had, leaves unanswered questions for those groping to understand their family’s past.
Great medicine
Africans arrived on ‘New World’ shores with valuable assets for both European and Native Americans. They were used to agricultural labor and working in field gangs, something unknown to most Indians.
As experts in tropical agriculture, Africans found much to share with Native Americans, and the two groups shared and combined knowledge about indigenous farming.
Native Americans found that Africans had ‘Great Medicine’ in their bodies. They were virtually immune to European diseases that decimated most native populations. This was also an encouragement for joining together, to create stronger, healthier children from the unions.
Their slave experience also qualified Africans as experts on whites – their motives, diplomacy, armaments, strengths, weaknesses, languages, defenses and plans.
Afro-Indian family ties
From a common foe, Africans and Native Americans found the first link of friendship and earliest motivation for an alliance. They discovered they shared some vital life views.
Family was of basic importance to both, with children and the elderly treasured. Religion, a love and respect for ‘Mother Life’, and the sacred mystery behind life, was a daily part of cultural life.
Both Africans and Native Americans found they shared a belief in cooperation, rather than competition and rivalry. Beyond individual human differences in personality, generally speaking, each race was proud, but neither was weighed down by prejudice. Skill, friendship and trust, not skin color or race was important.
That Native Americans and Africans merged by choice, invitation, and bonds of trust and friendship, cannot be understated. It explains why families who share this biracial inheritance have never forgotten these family ties.
Since 1502, Black Indians have been reported, documented, painted, and photographed coast to coast from Hudson’s Bay to Tierra del Fuego. In the decades between the 1619 Jamestown settlement and the ‘Great Treaty Signings’ of the 1880’s, Black Indian Societies were reported in more than 15 states from New York to South Carolina as well as the thirty Caribbean Islands ‘blessed’ by European colonization.
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hiram1555
April 11, 2012 at 10:34 pm
GREETINGS,
AS YOU KNOW, WE ALWAYS TRY TO GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE,BUT IF WE GET CERTAIN INFORMATION PASSED TO US AND WE FIND THAT IT IS CORRECT, WE POST IT. WE ARE SORRY IF SOME OF YOUR RESEARCH WAS USED. IF YOU WOULD FORWARD US A LITTLE INFORMATION ON YOURSELF AND YOUR POST, WE WILL GLADLY PUT UP A LINK AND GIVE YOU CREDIT…..
William Loren Katz
April 9, 2012 at 4:37 pm
I notice above many of writings taken from by BLACK INDIANS and my website articles appear on this webiste a friend just e-mailed to me. While I am pleased my research continues to reach many people, it would be appropriate to specifically state in an
article where it appears, and in what ways has it been altered. Also I notice a listing of websites that often “borrow” from my BLACK INDIANS, but not my website.
Should this not be corrected, at least to direct people to the original source?
William Loren Katz
Gardner Recall
January 4, 2010 at 5:39 am
The citizens of Gardner, KS are currently working to recall two members of their City Council. The recall is tied up in the courts at the moment, but it should go to a vote in March of 2010.