IndiVisible Dialogue: from NMAI-NY Diker Pavilion

Curator Dr. Gabrielle Tayac (Piscataway), hosts a conversation with Dr. Heriberto Dixon (Tutelo) about the history and contemporary cultures of mixed heritage Native people.

[@chrisallen5680]

I give thanks to Creator for these speakers. My Native people are close relation with Dr Tayac's people. A few of us still know some old songs and dances and the language is making us speak it! Beautiful presentation with powerful information. I hope to meet this sister and this brother some day.

[@BlackAmericanIndia]

Excellent!!! Dr. Dixon mentioned the region my paternal people are from....Vance/Granville County, NC. Love it!!!

[@truthoverfictionii5760]

Mine also.

[@georgehagegeorge7874]

Plecker mentions my family in a letter to the Sherriff in TN, he went across state borders to mess with people.

[@matubbee]

I'm from Tupelo Mississippi and my grandfather & grandmother was from Virginia/Maryland area and they are traced to Tupelo and Calhoun county Mississippi their last name was Ross. My grandfather & his son Hercules was also found in Oklahoma, his ma & pa was from Virginia.

[@redwolf1241]

Historian Willy Johns claims the name Seminoles wasn't given until the second Seminole war in 1835 but Seminole is a Spanish derived word that was given to African runaways by Spaniards in Florida, for those who were escaping slavery in South Carolina and Georgia because Spain had claimed Florida a sanctuary state in 1693. The hitchiti were given the Spanish derived name of miccosukee while the Muskogee were called Creeks. Our history has been white washed once again. The Seminoles were a nation filled primarily of Gullah Geechees, Miccosukee, and Muskogee tribes. Only the Miccosukee and Muskogee had clans based on maternal lineage in order to be apart of their tribes but not necessary to be considered a Seminole. It went nation, tribe, and then clan if you were Miccosukee or Muskogee and then band or surname. It wasn't till money was involved that you had to be part of a clan in order to be considered Seminole. The only reason they're called Seminole is because the Miccosukee couldn't pronounce the 'r' in cimarron. Denying that my ancestors were Seminoles is like denying that my ancestors went through the same battles that the Miccosukee and Muskogee went through if not worse. Not only did my ancestors have to fight in the same three wars but also had to escape slavery. Denying that my ancestors were Seminoles is like denying that my ancestors not only escaped severe oppression but fought and died for their freedom. It's once again making my ancestors out to be inferior and once again giving the false notion that their freedom was just given to them by the same oppressors who never intended for them to have it in the first place.

[@chadscott8733]

If you read between the lines the African part is made up. Like in this video when it was noted that they paid Census enumerators more for negro classification than Indian. And the Walter Plecker debacle in VA which was likely further reaching.

[@stevenredclay6506]

She stated off putting him in Africa which is stating he is a foreigner to this land.

[@TruthTeller-ms1dv]

Steven Redclay that’s true I notice that the host did that The host didn’t mention the other panelists clear European/ whiteness We have a long way to go Because I still see so much mislabeling going on

[@chrisconnors9449]

He mentioned being descent of both

[@MsVanillaSugar]

Excellent! My cousin sent me to this video. Prayerfully, I will meet Dr. Dixon soon and he will be able to share his knowledge regarding my family's ancestral African and Native roots.

[@matubbee]

I wish I could have attended this event

[@lycan5635]

Louden county (tutelo)

[@lycan5635]

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[@Wisekingiii]

Ithikah sounds Ghabaray aka Ibri aka hebrew according to the heathens.

[@Wisekingiii]

She don't look nothing like us at all! Thus she came with the bs its not who and what you see!

[@chrisconnors9449]

You clearly werent listening .. where were you during the opening session where they spoke of “not being able to tell ones ancestry simply by how that person looks”???.. all of our ancestors didnt all look like us. (Expand ya thoughts bruh).. getting out of that ignorant racist driven hebrew israelite hate speech camp would help.. judge people by their individual actions is the native american indian way.