Happy Indigenous Day!
10/12/2026
If your great-grandmother or great-great-grandmother was born in the Americas, then you are most likely native to the land. I'll go further and say you are native to the Earth.
You are the people I spoke about in my History of a Marriage License: The Chacta and Cherokee. Your ancestors' land was slowly seized from under them, as they tried to keep the peace, with a foreigner who wanted to do nothing but take land from a people who were already here, and then offered their land to immigrants who they shuttled here from across the water with a promise of new land, a new home.
The first taste of redlining a people.
They then began the censuses where they classified our great-great-grandparents with the title of "black". They did not choose that labeling. For them, there were many tribes that were here before the Spanish showed up. They were then labeled as "Colored", "Mulatto", then "black " again, then "Negro". Birth Certificates had a race listed depending on when you were born. It wasn't your tribe, but a constructed race based on control.
Their true title was erased. Grandparents who remembered told their true lineage through oral tradition with someone in the family they knew would eventually pass it on.
You, copper-colored people, were given the title African-American, not because of the government or census takers, like your great-grandparents had, but because of one man. The Reverend Jesse Jackson. If he could push to reclassify us as African-American, why didn't he push to reclassify us back to the status of our great-great-grandparents?
That reclassification brought the link back to Africa. Do you know that on a World Map from 1500, Africa doesn't even exist? Nor does an ice wall. It shows Antarctica was warm during that time.
This immigration went on from 1892-1954
Understand that your history DID NOT BEGIN with Slavery. Your history as a people is expansive. People either don't know, or they forgot about Pangea. Pangea was a time when the continents were together; when people were ready to migrate, they could walk from one landmass to another.
Your ancestors' feet have touched every landmass on this planet. From stories I've seen, that is still a possibility, but they hide it from you.
Copper colored people have always been present on this planet, and the Black nobility who hides behind, or I should say, who has presented lighter people as your oppressor. They are a whole other story.
You are not only Indigenous to the Americas, but to the world. This is your day. Honor yourselves and your Ancestors on this day.
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