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Devastation of a tribal community.... In 1964 the Ford Motor Corporation had purchased nearly 900 acres of land within the Ramapo Mountains. This land was the former site of the Ringwood mines complex, that provided iron for every war, from...

98% OF AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE IN FACT NATIVE INDIANS AND ARE OWED MILLIONS The tens of millions of Black Americans, or rather Indians, who ‘disappeared’ after 1492 did not all die in the ‘holocaust’ inflicted within America. Hundreds of thousands...

https://youtu.be/wzXQoZ6pE-M I’m Not the Indian You Had in Mind A video exploration offering insight as to how First Nations people today are changing old ideas and empowering themselves in the greater community. Produced with a grant awarded by bravoFACT (Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent),...

Apache chief Geronimo (1829-1909) was Born: June 16, 1829, in the upper Gila River country of Arizona. Although he harbored animosity toward the Mexican soldiers who killed his wife and children, he also grew to dislike the Anglo-Americans who took over...

https://youtu.be/MV_yoADzO_E Tupac Shakur and Tupac Amaru Posted on February 26, 2014 by Chuck Walker “I wanted him to have the name of revolutionary, indigenous people in the world. I wanted him to know he was part of a world culture and not...

The Huge, Ignored Uprising in the Andes J.H. Elliott OCTOBER 23, 2014 ISSUE The Tupac Amaru Rebellion by Charles F. Walker Belknap Press/ Harvard University Press, 347 pp., $29.95 Milner Cajahuaringa Tupac Amaru II, the late-eighteenth-century leader of the Peruvian rebellion against the Spanish crown Between 1780...

Broken treaties, cultural genocide and murder: Here are 5 ways the US has ‘given thanks’ to Native Americans The urban legend about Thanksgiving is that the Native Americans helped save the Pilgrims who had a rough start to their settlements....

With more than 500 treaties already broken, the government can do whatever it wants, it seems... Nov 21, 2014 5:06pm EST by Samuel Vargo More than 500 treaties have been made between the government and Indian tribes and all were broken,...

  The first inhabitants of Maryland were Paleo-Indians who came more than 10,000 years ago from other parts of North America to hunt mammoth, great bison and caribou. By 1,000 B.C., Maryland had more than 8,000 Native Americans in about...

https://youtu.be/DLJS4gtpMX0  Our struggle to reclaim our lost identity is a daily task. In our journey to take back our stolen heritage we are confronted with bigotry and hate from all sides. Our oppressors define us as negro, black and colored...