Black Seminoles: The Untold Uprising
Black/African Americans and Native Americans have co-existed as friend and foe, free and slave, and most recently defender and defendant. Join Dr. Carol Francois and Kourtney Square, her niece, as they reveal the curious and sometimes unexpected relationship between Black/African Americans and Native Americans and how that relationship has been shaped by America’s systemic racism. Want more, take our course Systemic Racism: See it, Say it, Confront it at www.whyaretheysoangry.com and find us anywhere at https://linktr.ee/WATSA
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Citations
“A Boiling Pot of Animosity or an Alliance of Kindred Spirits? Exploring Connections Between Native Americans and African Americans,” Hilary N. Weaver State University of New York, Buffalo, 2008.
“A mixed-race woman’s long quest to prove her Native American ancestry,” Neeley Tucker, The Washington Post, Jan. 4, 2019.
Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage, William Loren Katz, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2012.
“Court: Cherokee Freedmen have right to tribal citizenship”, Sean Murphy, AP, August, 31, 2017.
“5 Things to Know about Blacks and Native Americans,” #teamEbony, Ebony, November 20, 2012.
“How Native Americans adopted slavery from white settlers”,” Alaina E. Roberts, Aljazeera, Dec. 27, 2018.
“Indivisible, African-Native American lives in America,” https://americanindian.si.edu/exhibitions/indivisible/index.html
Seminole Nation Museum, https://www.seminolenationmuseum.org/blog/archive/m.blog/42/seminole-freedman#:~:text=In%201838%2C%20the%20vanguard%20of,500%20black%20rebels%20had%20emigrated.
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