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"Some American Indians were counted as negro/colored/black, especially if they did not relocate to reservations. For example, one of my 7x great grands was full blood Choctaw in Mississippi. He did not relocate to Oklahoma during the time of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek (1832, I believe) because he lived with his tribe/family and his wife could not relocate with him (she was from a different NDN tribe and was a slave). Although he was a free man, he was called negro/colored because his skin was brown."
(57)"The Virginia Vital Statistics Bureau classed all nonreservation Indians as ``Negro''
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-THOMASINA E. JORDAN INDIAN TRIBES OF VIRGINIA FEDERAL RECOGNITION ACT OF 2009
A History of Misnomer
Congress finds the following:
(1) Historically, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation (“Creek Nation”) were comprised of a confederacy of separate towns, Tribes, and peoples. Each town was a complete governmental unit in and of itself. Among those peoples were the Yamassee or Jamassi, who were reported to have emigrated from Africa prior to the European discovery of America.
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-H. R. 4637 117th CONGRESS
1st Session Introduced in House (07/22/2021)
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The Accomac and Accohannock Indians from Early Relations by C.A. Weslager (1961)
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“Powhatan more like a devil then a man with some two hundred more as black as himself, came unto him and told him now they were friends, and presently he should go to Jamestown.”
The Generall historie of Virginia, New England, and the summer isles 1624 pages 62,102
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