How dark-skinned Indigenous peoples across the Americas were systematically reclassified as “Black” or “Negro” to strip them of Indigenous identity and land rights. Explores the mound-building civilizations, the Washitaw Nation’s claims about the Louisiana Purchase, forced assimilation into slave populations, boarding school erasure, and the modern implications for Black Americans discovering Indigenous ancestry.
When you understand how they divided us, you can refuse those divisions. When you understand why they declared us extinct, you can stand as living proof they failed. When you understand the tools of erasure, you can forge tools of resurrection.
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