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We can’t physically get to everyone even though we would LOVE to. We figured we could make a form that you can submit your own videos to the project . You don’t have to do anything fancy, cell phone and web cam videos are welcome. We just want to hear from you! 

If you’re not comfortable with video we will also accept text answers, just know we are working out the best way to present this. 

We will never share your private information with anyone. 

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Happy Indigenous People’s Day 

(image from Black Girl Dangerous)

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Penny Gamble-Williams is an enrolled tribal member of the Chappaquiddick Wampanoag tribe, who are not a federally recognized tribe, and of African heritage. She is an activist involved in Native land, freedom of religion and sacred site issues, Indigenous and environmental rights. She was elected Sachem (chief) in 1995 and served for seven years. In 2005 Penny and her husband Thunder Williams co authored a concept paper on the historical connections and relationships of African Americans and presented it to the National Museum of the American Indian. From that paper “Indivisble-African-Native American Lives in the Americas” was created. Penny and her husband were curators of the traveling exhibition, which is also a book of the same name.

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#blackedu Cherokee freedmen ruling Marilyn Vann (Not portrait in photo), a Cherokee freedmen spokeswoman and plaintiff in the case, said she will push forward with the lawsuit.  “We’re going to continue until our rights are thoroughly vindicated,” Vann said. “This brings us one step closer to us being able to have a court say - hopefully once and for all - that these are the rights of these people and they are what the parties agreed on in 1866, and nothing has happened to change this."  Rena Logan (Portrait in photo) is a retired cook from Muskogee who keeps her ancestors’ Freedmen Roll number of 3918 close to her heart every day. Just as many white Americans owned enslaved Africans until after the Civil War, so did some Cherokee tribesmen. The practice generally ended with an 1866 treaty that freed the slaves and afforded them the same rights as native Cherokees. "We are black, and we were slaves, and they want to keep us that way,” Logan said. “It really hurts the heart. What did we do to be discriminated against?” The freedmen families'struggle for citizenship can be compared to “a latent civil rights struggle,” said Carla Pratt, a law professor at Pennsylvania State University who has studied the freedmen issue for several years. The key question, Pratt asks, is “What does a slaveholding nation owe to the people it has enslaved?” In deciding a person’s identity, the tribe relies on a historical record called the Dawes Rolls, which was created by the federal government between 1898 and 1906 to identify citizens of the Cherokee Nation — and members of other tribes — who were living in Indian territory. The roll has two parts. The first, called the Cherokees–by–Blood Roll, identified about 32,000 citizens of the nation who could prove direct Indian ancestry. The second, known as the Freedmen Roll, identified about 5,000 freedmen citizens of the nation, typically black former slaves and their descendants owned by Cherokee tribesmen. The freedmen families have argued that the Treaty of 1866, signed decades before the Dawes Rolls were written, takes precedent. That treaty between the U.S. government and the Cherokees gave the freedmen and their descendants “all the rights of native Cherokees.”

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JazzFest, New Orleans.  2016.

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This “Proud Native American, Proud African-American” celebrates her heritage at the Potawatomi Trails pow wow in Zion, Ill., carrying a prayer fan.

Submitted by/Credit: yooperann City/Location: Flickr

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Arizona Black Indians: The Muurish Nation of America - Indigenous Africans in North America  |  Social Studies Department  | Yebies University  

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These women are of African heritage, but are wearing traditional Creek-Seminole clothing and standing in a traditional Creek “pila” or dug-out canoe. Credit: Courstesy of the FSU Library

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Currently seeking New York City Interviewees

If you are in the NYC area and would like an on camera interview, please contact us! we are trying to get at least 3 interviews done in the next 3 weeks. 

Let us know you’re interested! blacknativeproject@gmail.com