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History of the South from the Late Mississippian Period patreon.com/learnyama/posts/…
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This is exactly why I keep saying we need to study our actual family histories instead of making everybody fit one narrative. Some families have documented Indigenous connections, some don’t. That doesn’t erase our shared history as Soulaan. Our peoplehood is rooted in America, and no single family tree defines the whole people. 🇺🇸
Is proto-'Black America' another Indigenous coalescence, but this time in the post-Removal South? patreon.com/learnyama/posts/…
Is proto-'Black America' another Indigenous coalescence, but this time in the post-Removal South? patreon.com/learnyama/posts/…
📍Balbansha (New Orleans)
Popular blues song by the Dixie Cups featuring chants in Yama aka Mobilian Jargon.
These are some of the last surviving chants in the Old ‘Indian language’ of the Indigenous South 🤯🌎
An important part of the ethnogenesis / ethnic formation of the population today known as Black Americans.
You can read the full article here:
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How concealment, institutions, and shifting patterns of assimilation and migration may explain divergent historical claims within ‘Black’ identity:
