Moors
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The Black Irish, the Moors, and the Memory the Atlantic Never Forgot
By Livity Tree Art | Livity.Blog | Ancestral Intelligence Series There is a question that colonial history has never been able to answer cleanly: Why do some Irish people look like us? Dark hair. Olive or deep brown skin. Eyes the color of the ocean — green, grey, blue — set in faces that belong…
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They Weren’t Freed—They Were Reclassified: How Freedmen Lost Their Land Through Paperwork
The article discusses the historical and ongoing dispossession of dark-skinned Indigenous nations in Oklahoma, primarily through the Dawes Rolls, which redefined racial categories and erased complex ancestries. It details how these mechanisms fragmented Indigenous identities, denied land rights, and continue to influence contemporary sovereignty struggles among the Freedmen, Washitaw, Muur, and Creole nations.
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They Made Indigenous Peoples “Black” to Steal the Land
Before colonizers arrived, North America had sophisticated civilizations that built structures rivaling Egypt’s pyramids. Cahokia, near present-day St. Louis, had 20,000 people—larger than London at the time… Historical accounts describe diverse Indigenous populations, including dark-skinned peoples who built these civilizations. The Kaw people of Kansas were described as having skin “as black as Negros.” Various…
