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Tag: American Indians
Did You Know Native Americans Owned Slaves?
A fact that is conveniently overlooked by those calling for reparations.
Elizabeth Warren got some ‘splaining to do!
The 13th Amendment did not free all slaves in the boundaries of modern-day US. Members of five Native American nations, the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole Nations (known as the Five Tribes), owned black slaves. Located outside the territorial boundaries of the US in a region known as Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma), these sovereign nations were not affected by proclamations or constitutional amendments. Instead, separate treaties had to be made between the US and these Native American nations not only to free slaves, but also to formally end the American Civil War battles and antagonism between American and Native American troops.
Don Cheadle finds out Native Americans owned his ancestors:
Don Cheadle discovers his ancestors were never owned by white people, but instead by Native Americans. Slaves weren’t freed from Native American ownership until 3 years after the Civil War when the white US government forced them to.
An Ancestry of African-Native Americans
Joke Of The Day: The Weatherman
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There’s an old Native American man that sits in a teepee along the road I take to work.
Every morning for a while now I stop in and ask him what the weather will be that day. Rain, snow, sun, clouds. He’s always right. Well yesterday I stopped in just like normal and asked what the weather was going to be like. “Got no clue”, he said. I was shocked. “What’s different about today that you don’t know?” He just shook his head sadly. “Radio broke.”
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