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Pre-Colonial
| Black Indians of America |
Who are black people in America really? They are certainly not all exclusive
slave descendants from Africa. To suggest this is to reject all manner of common
sense and science. The culture and history of Africans and Indians are virtually
identical. Scholars of various ethnic backgrounds and fields have presented proof
of ancient advanced black civilizations in America throughout modern history.
The bloodlines:
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard professor and director of the W.E.B. DuBois
Institute for African American Research, stated that blacks possess very little Red
Indian blood. This is true, and neither do the so-called Native Americans. Here is
why. In just one century after Columbus stumbled across America, the Spanish
managed to wipe out nearly the entire race in North, South, and Central Americas.
By the end of the 1500s, those surviving five to ten percent Indians included a pre-
colonial diverse population of black aborigines, Asians, Africans, and even ancient
Europeans, all of whom procreated with the European colonists for generations
following. What remains of the Native-American tribes today are people whose
lineage can be directly traced back to a Census Roll book mandated by Congress
in the 1890s to the early 20th century. This was after the Indian Removal Act of
1830. The “Dawes Commission Land Rolls” consist of ancestors who can be
officially identified from the list of names. Only citizens from these extremely
diluted bloodlines are considered “real” American Indians.
When the vast majority of Natives were forced west (about 250,000) a large
number of blacks (Freedmen – African Americans who were mostly slaves but also
relatives of some of the Five Civilized Tribes: the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw,
Creek and Seminole Nations) went with them. The “Civilized” tribes were
assimilated and, more importantly, confederate. Regardless of any mixed heritage,
blacks were forced to list themselves strictly as freedmen. Under the 1866 Treaty
which required sovereign Indian Nations to free and permanently liberate their
slaves, African Americans lived primarily among themselves on their own
designated lands. At various times since then, more particularly after reparations,
many American Indians have sought and succeeded to exclude blacks from their
tribes, stripping them of certain social and economic benefits. After the Indian
Removal, there would be next to no mixing between blacks and Natives, especially
in the Southeast, as the only peoples that didn’t travel west were a Cherokee tribe
in North Carolina and a Miccosukee tribe in Florida. Incidentally, current DNA
testing is incapable of determining one’s full ancestral heritage.
The Black Origins:
The fact that black people lived and thrived in America before they were
enslaved by Europeans is not some Afro-centric fantasy, which is asserted by
most mainstream scientists. No reasonable seeker of knowledge needs
conventional proof to show them what’s obvious. If Negroid people, who were the
first intelligent beings existing thousands of years before any other racial type –
supported by the same scientific community – it stands to reason that red skinned,
straight-haired people and all others came much later. Many of the pre-colonial
blacks had come from Africa, namely, the great, ancient Moors. They explored the
Seven Seas and knew that the earth indeed was not FLAT many centuries before
Columbus. They brought Western Europe out of the dark ages. From their travels
to the New World they established trade settlements and built earthen mounds.
These ancient pre-Columbian Africans were subsequently, many of them, sold into
slavery along with the new Africans brought over in slave ships.
There are so many renowned African American scholars such as Dr. Ivan Van
Sertima (author of “They Came Before Columbus) who understood that black
history spans far beyond the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Furthermore, white
scholars, Alexander Von Wuthenau and Malcolm J. Rogers, in addition to
numerous others, devoted much of their careers to the reality that advanced black
cultures preceded the Red Indians. Historian, Alexander Von Wuthenau, collected
many ancient clay figurines that clearly illustrate the diversity of America’s pre-
Columbian inhabitants. In 1958, archeologist, Malcolm J. Rogers made a public
announcement about his proof, including skeletal remains and artifacts, that black
people were the original, indigenous people of North America. He served nearly
twenty years as Director of the museum of Man in San Diego, California. He also
ran a forty-year forensic study of the indigenous people of San Diego. He worked
closely with the Smithsonian Institute as well.
The apparent, nearly collective attempt of the American scientific community to
deny and suppress this truth is yet another example of organized racism – which
obviously stems from an ancient envy and fear of the Mother Culture.
slave descendants from Africa. To suggest this is to reject all manner of common
sense and science. The culture and history of Africans and Indians are virtually
identical. Scholars of various ethnic backgrounds and fields have presented proof
of ancient advanced black civilizations in America throughout modern history.
The bloodlines:
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard professor and director of the W.E.B. DuBois
Institute for African American Research, stated that blacks possess very little Red
Indian blood. This is true, and neither do the so-called Native Americans. Here is
why. In just one century after Columbus stumbled across America, the Spanish
managed to wipe out nearly the entire race in North, South, and Central Americas.
By the end of the 1500s, those surviving five to ten percent Indians included a pre-
colonial diverse population of black aborigines, Asians, Africans, and even ancient
Europeans, all of whom procreated with the European colonists for generations
following. What remains of the Native-American tribes today are people whose
lineage can be directly traced back to a Census Roll book mandated by Congress
in the 1890s to the early 20th century. This was after the Indian Removal Act of
1830. The “Dawes Commission Land Rolls” consist of ancestors who can be
officially identified from the list of names. Only citizens from these extremely
diluted bloodlines are considered “real” American Indians.
When the vast majority of Natives were forced west (about 250,000) a large
number of blacks (Freedmen – African Americans who were mostly slaves but also
relatives of some of the Five Civilized Tribes: the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw,
Creek and Seminole Nations) went with them. The “Civilized” tribes were
assimilated and, more importantly, confederate. Regardless of any mixed heritage,
blacks were forced to list themselves strictly as freedmen. Under the 1866 Treaty
which required sovereign Indian Nations to free and permanently liberate their
slaves, African Americans lived primarily among themselves on their own
designated lands. At various times since then, more particularly after reparations,
many American Indians have sought and succeeded to exclude blacks from their
tribes, stripping them of certain social and economic benefits. After the Indian
Removal, there would be next to no mixing between blacks and Natives, especially
in the Southeast, as the only peoples that didn’t travel west were a Cherokee tribe
in North Carolina and a Miccosukee tribe in Florida. Incidentally, current DNA
testing is incapable of determining one’s full ancestral heritage.
The Black Origins:
The fact that black people lived and thrived in America before they were
enslaved by Europeans is not some Afro-centric fantasy, which is asserted by
most mainstream scientists. No reasonable seeker of knowledge needs
conventional proof to show them what’s obvious. If Negroid people, who were the
first intelligent beings existing thousands of years before any other racial type –
supported by the same scientific community – it stands to reason that red skinned,
straight-haired people and all others came much later. Many of the pre-colonial
blacks had come from Africa, namely, the great, ancient Moors. They explored the
Seven Seas and knew that the earth indeed was not FLAT many centuries before
Columbus. They brought Western Europe out of the dark ages. From their travels
to the New World they established trade settlements and built earthen mounds.
These ancient pre-Columbian Africans were subsequently, many of them, sold into
slavery along with the new Africans brought over in slave ships.
There are so many renowned African American scholars such as Dr. Ivan Van
Sertima (author of “They Came Before Columbus) who understood that black
history spans far beyond the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Furthermore, white
scholars, Alexander Von Wuthenau and Malcolm J. Rogers, in addition to
numerous others, devoted much of their careers to the reality that advanced black
cultures preceded the Red Indians. Historian, Alexander Von Wuthenau, collected
many ancient clay figurines that clearly illustrate the diversity of America’s pre-
Columbian inhabitants. In 1958, archeologist, Malcolm J. Rogers made a public
announcement about his proof, including skeletal remains and artifacts, that black
people were the original, indigenous people of North America. He served nearly
twenty years as Director of the museum of Man in San Diego, California. He also
ran a forty-year forensic study of the indigenous people of San Diego. He worked
closely with the Smithsonian Institute as well.
The apparent, nearly collective attempt of the American scientific community to
deny and suppress this truth is yet another example of organized racism – which
obviously stems from an ancient envy and fear of the Mother Culture.
References:
Diouf, Silviane. Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americans. NYU Press, 1998.
Rogers, Malcolm J. Ancient Hunters of the Far West. Union Publishing: San Diego, 1966.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/An-Ancestry-of-African-Native-Americans.html#ixzz1jJ1KDRJE
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/19/140594124/u-s-government-opposes-cherokee-nations-decision
Diouf, Silviane. Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americans. NYU Press, 1998.
Rogers, Malcolm J. Ancient Hunters of the Far West. Union Publishing: San Diego, 1966.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/An-Ancestry-of-African-Native-Americans.html#ixzz1jJ1KDRJE
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/19/140594124/u-s-government-opposes-cherokee-nations-decision
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