We Are Not African American

Introduction 

George Catlin - (North American Indians Vol. 1  pg. 94 & 95)
"From these few facts alone, the reader will see that I'm amongst a strange and interesting people, and know how to pardon me, if I lead him through a maze of novelty and mysteries to the knowledge of a strange, yet kind hospitable, people, whose fate, like that of all their race is sealed; whose doom is fixed, to live just long enough to be imperfectly known and then fall before the fell disease or sword of civilizing devastation."

                             

We Are Not African-American
 

First let me say we already know that there will be confusion about what we are saying.  We only ask that you view this information with an open mind.  Some of us don’t view racial heritage as being important. However, racial heritage is just as important as knowing your parentage. Many of us have been told or have heard about our Indian heritage. We've mistakenly believed that this meant we were Native Americans. Thus when DNA tests were taken and no DNA link to Native Americans was established, we've erroneously accepted the remaining strong African link as our heritage.

When Columbus arrived he thought he was in India and therefore called all the peoples of this land Indians. Columbus was not aware that there were, at least, three separate peoples living in the Americas: Moors, Asians, and an indigenous group. Our ancestors, the indigenous group,  lived here and may have been known as the Anasazi people.

The elders in our family had knowledge of these distinct groupings of peoples but was forced to accepted the blanket designation "Indian" as their own. Our elders knew we were not African. This is the genetic trap Henry Louis Gates fell into in his program "Finding Your Roots". Gates compared the DNA of Asian (Native Americans) to that of possibly Indigenous Americans and correctly found no match but mistakenly concluded that the tested individuals were of slave descent with European highlights.

Our DNA is an infallible record of our heritage and can accurately detail our heritage. We estimate that over 80% of people designated as "African" are actually indigenous.

The Americas is where our ancestors lived and were buried for over 10,000 years. Recent archaeological findings of bone fragments is beginning to recover the DNA of the ancient Americans we believe to be our ancestors.

We are an ancient people who have been stripped of the knowledge of their heritage. That knowledge has been replaced with stories of slave ships and made up tales like the movie "Roots" http://www.martinlutherking.org/roots.html. The recovered DNA of the ancient Americans will restore our lineage, and irrefutably establish our claim to the Americas as our ancestral home.

The Movie "Cadillac Records" & Chuck Berry

If you have heard about your grandparents or parents being of Indian descent this is information that has been past down. We have been saying and hearing this for a long time. The movie Cadillac Records is just another piece of information that strengthens that. In the movie Cadillac Records, Chuck Berry is suppose to perform at an all white club. They thought he was a white performer because he sang country/western. When he shows up they don't believe he is Chuck Berry. They ask for identification and when he presents his identification his race is listed as Indian but of course they still won't let him perform. Watch the attached clip it's interesting, this took place around 1955.

Born Charles Edward Anderson Berry on Oct. 18, 1926, Chuck Berry grew up in his family's three-room brick cottage at 2250 Goode Avenue, "a nicely kept area in the best of the three colored sections of St. Louis," he recalled later in an interview with Bernard Weintraub. The neighborhood, known as the Ville, was a thriving black community north and west of downtown St. Louis. Mr. Berry's parents, Henry and Martha, came from polyglot roots: African, Chihuahua Indian and European.

Terms and Definitions

Terms and Definitions

The following are the terms and definitions we use on this site. We've included them for clarity.

Aboriginal - Of or relating to the people and things that have been in a region from the earliest time.

Admix - To mingle with or add to something else.

American - An aboriginal or one of the copper colored natives found on the American continent by the Europeans; the original application of the name. Webster's 20th Century Dictionary of the English Language.

Ameridian - American Indian.

Anasazi - A prehistoric indigenous inhabitant of the canyons of northern Arizona and New Mexico and southwestern Colorado.

Blood-Line - A sequence of direct ancestors especially in a pedigree; also :  family,strain.

Blood-Type -Any of the four main types into which human blood is divided: A, B, AB, and O. Blood types are based on the presence or absence of certain substances, called antigens, on red blood cells. Also called blood group.

Indian - A member of any of the [aboriginal] peoples of the western hemisphere except often the Eskimos; especially :  an American Indian of North America and especially the United States.

Mitochondrial DNA - An extranuclear double-stranded DNA found exclusively in mitochondria that in most eukaryotes is a circular molecule and is maternally inherited —abbreviation mtDNA.

Native American -  Native American is now fully established in American English as an equivalent of Indian, being acceptable in all contemporary contexts and preferred inmany. It is especially appropriate as a term of respect used by outsiders, who may have concerns that Indian could cause offense by its association with longstanding cultural stereotypes. Native American is the clear choice in many formal contexts, not only because it indicates respect but, more pragmatically, because it avoids any ambiguity between indigenous American peoples and the inhabitants of India. But despite its wide acceptance,Native American has not displaced Indian to any significant degree outside of formal contexts, and it is now common to find the two terms used interchangeably in the same piece of writing.

Y-DNA - Y-DNA Haplogroups are the groupings of mankind based on analysis of the y-chromosome, which has been passed from father to son since the beginning of mankind.