Long before today’s anxiety about terror attacks, Spain and England feared that enslaved Africans would be more susceptible to revolt if they were Muslim
By Andrew Lawler
SMITHSONIAN.COM
On Christmas Day, 1522, 20 enslaved Muslim Africans used machetes to attack their Christian masters...
https://youtu.be/q20HMwogLSU
Hunting North American Indians in Barbados
Patricia Penn Hilden
University of California, Berkeley
May, 2002
"However scarce, Indians continued to be captured and sold to Barbados. After the 1670 founding of Charlestown by Sir John Colleton and his fellow Barbadians, dozens more landless...
Bakersfield College | Kern Community College District | Professor J. Stratton
1801 Panorama Dr. - Bakersfield, CA 93305
Diffusion theory and the Myth of Brendan's voyage to America circa 700 a.d.
The following list is sometimes used to reinforce the cultural diffusion theory about cross-Atlantic contact...
INDIGENOUS RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS COME OF AGE
Publication Date
June 2009
On August 9, 2008, the International Day of Indigenous Peoples, Amazonian Indigenous Peoples across eastern Peru, organized by the Inter-ethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest (AIDESEP), held a massive...
From a historical and scientific point of view, the Native American Lost Tribe claim is clearly narishkeit (Yiddish for foolishness). But even a brief exploration of it — who was making it and why, who was refuting it and why, reveals important...
https://youtu.be/xIewokB4JtQ
NOBLE DREW ALI: PROPHET OF THE PEOPLE
Meet the man history never intended you to know, Noble Drew Ali, the redeemer and resurrector of our true history and lineage in the Americas. Learn of the principles he brought to the...
The World Is Mind is a return to the boom bap.
http://ambrosiaforheads.com/2017/05/krs-one-world-is-mind-new-album-full-audio/
While KRS’ rhymes have never been in question, his beats have not always been consistent. From the opening track of this album, it is clear that Kris has that...
Uncas (1598-1683) became Sachem of the Mohegan Tribe, which favored collaboration with the English. The Pequots under Sassacus chose to fight them, with other local tribes taking sides. Seeing the loss...
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...
https://youtu.be/wfle-tU-0C4
Video and text by TIM FAULKNER/ecoRI News staff
PROVIDENCE — A federally unrecognized local Native American tribe is seeking reparations from Rhode Island and the U.S. government.
The Mashapaug Nahaganset tribe, with some 100 members living the Providence area, accuses the state and...