Black Indian Mission '2008 for Enid, Oklahoma

Black Indian Mission '2008 for Enid, Oklahoma

June 17, 2008

Dear Friends:

Shortly after the holiday celebrated as "Thanksgiving" by most of the United States the Village Square Collective, Inc. under the stewardship of Junior-Jawara Blake invited Angela Molette, Resident Instructor for the Southern Heights Heritage Center & Museum as a guest on the radio program "Health Is Here" heard on New York's radio station WVIP 93.5 FM on Saturday mornings from 6-8 a.m.

The purpose of the show was to offer further exposure to conflicting information and clarification regarding the "Thanksgiving" holiday. Angela Molette is a lineal descendant of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nation Citizens whose group is composed of all Black Indians who came here directly from Africa and other parts of the Diaspora before the advent of any European voyage.

Ms. Molette stated that as opposed to being re-named African Americans her community has always referred to themselves as "Black Indians" and revealed to our audience that most of the names of the states and their counties had Black in the names so that Black not only referred to the people, but also to the land, traditions and the lifestyle of the people. We who were mis-educated within the United States and throughout the Diaspora were always led to believe that "Black Indians" were primarily freed slaves who intermarried and intertwined themselves into the culture and the traditions of the Native Americans who were people of a red hue.

The audience members were literally shocked to hear and be presented with historical information, treaties and narratives to the contrary in that those groups/individuals/ clans who refer to themselves in this manner are historically the first and only indigenous group of Indians in North America and that those more Asiatic or red skinned individuals/ groups/clans whom we currently identify as Native Americans are people who were mixed with whites as a result of rape, pillage and the enslavement of the Black Indians with forced migrations to reservations and internment camps. Some of these Asiatic looking Native Americans were actually half breeds, warring invaders and not the first indigenous people as they would have us believe and not Black Indians in the sense of being indigenous to the land or the original Black people. After we were able to wrap our minds around these and other concepts we arrived at the topic of health and the current state of the Black Indians not only in Okl
ahoma where Mrs. Molette hails from but also bands of Black Indians who are almost extinct throughout the Southern and Western parts of the United States. When we heard of the horrific conditions under which the Black Indians were living we wondered if we could be of more service to them than a radio program and undertake a mission on their behalf.

They are in dire need of medical help and assistance. They are suffering from diabetes, high blood pressure, poor nutrition, cancer, (prostate cancer, lymphomas, leukemia, breast cancer etc.) poor to no obstetric and gynecological services, poor pre-natal services, arthritis, osteoporosis, lack of dental hygiene, gout, and these are just a few.

We decided at that moment to enlist the services of Dr. Roy Streete and the Organization for International Development (OID) www.oidinc.org since they have the extensive experience, expertise and wherewithal to assist us in this undertaking. Our approach would be two-fold so that instead of burdening the OID singularly with this mission we would also do significant outreach to other medical organizations and alternative healthcare practitioners and providers throughout the community to participate in this endeavor. However, we would ask the OID to take the lead in helping us to organize and structure the mission.

We have been in touch with Angela Molette, the Elders and Clan Mothers and they have suggested that we journey to Enid, Oklahoma during the first week-end of October when all of the Indian nations of the Five Civilized Tribes come together in a large POW WOW weekend, and the access to the different bands which need medical assistance would be optimal. Therefore, we have confirmed traveling to Oklahoma the weekend of Thursday, October 2 through Monday, October 6, 2008 for this mission.

This is our first mission to Enid and we plan to undertake this on an annual basis. Therefore, we are asking all prospective participants to register with the Village Square Collective at 347-210-6464. We are also asking all participants to pay their own airfare and accommodations for this historic journey. We can provide through a travel agent the group reservations for air, hotel and meal accommodations, but we are not as yet in a position to financially offset these amenities for the participants and we trust in subsequent years we will we be able to offer these services. We are not requesting any monies or financial support from any governmental agency this is completely a "self-reliance" mission and therefore if you are unable to travel at this time please consider making a donation so that other members of the community may be able to attend. Any amount that you are able to give will be appreciated. Please make all checks payable to the Organization for International Developm
ent and in the memo section indicate that it is for the Black Indian Mission.

Angela Molette's previous occupation was that of a nurse, she is now a historian, documentarian and primary spokesperson for the Black Indians. I will attach her extensive bio for those who request it. In order to benefit from the lowest airfares and accommodations to Oklahoma City , Oklahoma we would have to book by or before July 30th 2008.

We of the Village Square Collective, Inc. trust that you will give this request for assistance your highest priority.

Nuff love & respect,
Dr. Roy Streete
Gloria Stephenson
Karyn G. Binns
Junior-Jawara Blake

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What To Ethnic (Black) Indigenous People Is The Fourth of July?
Independence Day For Whom?

The Fourth of July: A National Celebration Of Theft
Every year they celebrate the theft of the Chatuache of my ancient Fathers. Chatuache, America. With each passing decade, their heroism and their bravery in throwing off the yoke of British oppression, taxation without representation, their hostile takeover of the Aboriginal Indian Country and the enslavement of Aboriginal Indians and Imported Africans and their progeny who suffered uncompensated labor unto death, as the basis of their National U.S. Economy, while promoting the idea of liberty for their own Caucasoid kind…is celebrated Country Wide and thrown into the faces of the survivors of Aboriginal Genocide. Aboriginals and Africans in America that were never allowed to live under a state of Independence or Autonomy even though they fought valiantly (in the historic past) and presently (in the here and now) endowed by Treaty Rights to do so.

The Fourth of July: Promulgation Of The National Fear of Black
The illegal occupiers of the soil of Aboriginal Indian Country have been successful in the eyes of their God, in getting nearly every human being on the Planet to hate Black, the fourth color of the four directions. Perhaps they fear the truth in our speech. Whatever the reason, Sacred Black is no longer upheld and respected like Red, Yellow and White. We are out of balance. The Fourth of July celebrants have brought the majority of dwellers on the Great Turtle, to convert and become compliant enough to kneel before a Blue-eyed God who tolerates, encourages, continues to bless and absolve them of the guilt of their evil. They have created a people that hate their own Black, even their own ancient and historic Black Ancestors. A great many Bearers of the sacred color, Black, believe it to be a curse, rather than a Blessing given from the Grandfather of Ages. Instead they promote and idolize the RED, WHITE and BLUE-eyes of militaristic pilgrims.

The Fourth of July: Should Be Used To Learn Something New About The Original Proprietors Of The Soil

GODS=DOGS
LISTEN=SILENT
LIVE=EVIL

You will hear; CHAHTA'S People (In Their Original Choctaw Language) Speak About Sacred Black…
LUSA=Black
LUSTI=Possessive Black, Pertaining To Our Blacks
CALUSA=Fierce Black
TUSCALUSA=Warrior Black; Black Warrior
NALUSA=Spirit Black
MOCHALUSA=Dark Brown like ancient Arabian Coffee from Yemen; Chocolate Black

Black as power, powerful to dawn, a motivator, causing trepidation and apprehension in our historic enemies. Black Drink (A powerful Aboriginal elixir), Black Warrior, Black Hawk, Black Sachem, Black Kettle, Black Jim (Notable Aboriginals in North America). Black Fellows (a name given Australian Aboriginals, which was frequently used by early eyewitness of North American Aborigines, as a means of comparison for some Tribal Bands).
From The Beginning…
Luke Chapter 13, Verses 29:30
29. "And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God."
30. "And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last."

Negative is an American apparition, not here from the beginning, not Greek, not Latin, not translated, pure 20th Century. Gaining strength from the hate of Black. Generally taken from Caucasian paranoia, apprehension, dread or fear of a Black Planet.

"God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love." II Timothy 1:7. Find a way to use his words to your own advantage, lest you perish by fears that do not come from the Creator.

The Fourth of July: Used By Ethnic Natives To Learn About The Historic Use of The Word Black
Black is a word given to all people in their natural language and mother tongue by the Creator. There is nothing ominous or sinister about it that needs to be avoided. In fact it is one of the most beautiful colors given to aboriginal peoples throughout the world to be included in the artwork from the Tibetan Monks to the Olmec Mother Culture of Central America. The Great Spirit gave Natives; the 4 directions and the 4 colors (red, yellow, black and white). Native prophecies and legends say that each color is dependent upon the other and that failure to protect one leads to the weakening and destruction of all the others. Black is a Color, Choctaw is a Race, therefore Black Choctaw is one of the powerful combinations the Grandfather of Ages put together. What he hath put together let no man put asunder.

My personal belief is that Black is one of the Great Spirit's favorite colors and because of the near complete hate, avoidance and unreasonable extreme distancing of so many millions of people from his creation (the wonderful color Black), as being the reason it has taken prophecies about Black Indians so long to be revealed and completed.

Ancient Use of Black In The Old World
Ancient uses of the word Black can be traced back to the African Continent and the Old World where the word Ethiopia or Ethiopian was tantamount and equivalent to the word Black. This is also found in the Holy Bible. It is also featured in One of the oldest Greek literary works "The Book of Pliny" The Elder, translated from the Greek to English by C. Plinivus Philemon, which uses both the words Blacke and Ethiopian interchangeably. Melanesian also means Black Islands.

The first European credited with traversing into the North American Aboriginal Interior (Beyond the Mississippi River-The Grand Espiritu Santo) was Hernando DeSoto and his band of murderous Conquistadors. They each drafted Narratives of their journey through Aboriginal Indian Country. One Narrative speaks of encountering Natives "So Black along the Coast" and "one as Big as a Philastine, Black as an Ethiopian." (original spelling preserved). This unmistakable use of the word Black in the identification of pre-contact Aboriginals in North America is astounding. DeSoto's men also entered information about the Dark people of Aymay and wrote about checking for remnants among the Tribes of the Moors that abandoned them, including those sick Moors they left in the care of Chiefs (particularly among the Coosa or Creek Nation).

There were Black Aboriginals noted on nearly every continent on the planet, including in the Philippines and Malaysia. Why would anyone believe that Aboriginal Indian Country in what is now North America would be excepted? The most generally accepted etymology of the name Aborigine is that of original inhabitants (from the Greek Autochthones) . The Aboriginal Negritos (little Blacks, small Blacks) were found to inhabit the world. The Malay term for Negro was Orang Asli or "Original People".

It has only been since the advent of the European to America did the word Black become endowed with negative uses and connotations. It is one of my creators favorite, strong and vibrant colors and I intend to love it, even if I am the only person left standing on planet earth to do so.

In short, what the Fourth of July should be to the lineal descendants of Ethnic (Black) Aboriginals is a time to remember that it is not our Independence Day. Rather, it is a time to be used to reflect upon the devastating impact that Caucasian independence has had upon Ethnic (Black) Aboriginals.

Embrace Black Indian Sovereignty. The alternative is to perish as a permanent underclass, victim of faux African American monoculturalism and a ceaseless subject of oppression.

Angela Molette, Representative and Spokesperson
Black Indians United Legal Defense and Education Fund of Enid, Oklahoma

Who We Are
A Brief Overview on the heritage of an Identity Group that is now and has historically been a minority or subordinated group in the United States who are currently suffering from Violations of Treaty Rights and Protections inscribed particularly for them;

"Ethnic Natives, Black Indians and Indian Freedmen are a unique little known group of Tribal persons comprising the Micro-Ethnic Protectorate of the 5 Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole Nations).
Their "minority" status is based upon their Race, which is Native American. Although their ancestral parentage is a mixture of both ancient Autochthonic and of Allochthonous foundations. However, what makes them patently unique is their Ethnicity as Indigenous North American Natives having African Admixture of remote origin that precedes European arrival on the Continent, which lends another crucial element of cultural heritage to this group and separates or sets them apart from all other Ethnic Groups living in the United States. Another characteristic which distinguishes them as a "minority" is their historical socioeconomic status, which was reduced to that as "Slave" among the Indians, as a result of influence occurring at the point of European contact.

A large body of evidence confirms that this particular group of Indigenous Persons once reigned as Tribal Monarchs, Ruling Families, Prophets, Shamans, Trusted Counsel and Warriors. They had a tradition of living within the Geographical Jurisdiction and Protection of Indian Country from the most ancient of times and retained Native Title to lands, even after Indian Removal in the 1830s, to settlement within Oklahoma Indian Territory. Their legal heirs and lineal descendants continue facing enormous challenges and difficulties forcing the United States to uphold Treaty Rights specific to them.

Within the Oklahoma Indian Territory (for a time 1830-1945) they retained absolute power and authority of their own government and controlled all their own people, activities, territory, and resources within the geographical borders of their own Regions, Districts, Communities and Tribal Towns, living under their own Tribal Leadership, their own laws and policies, functioning as independent Sovereign Nations within the Jurisdiction of their Parent Nation's Country. Their Parent Tribal Nations cemented this relationship for all posterity with their Micro-Ethnic Protectorate, as they ceded lands (by the Treaties of 1866) for their settlement, which was taken in "Trust" for their exclusive use by the United States. More importantly, they maintained autonomous Political Representation and Influence until denied access by discriminatory U.S. Policies.

Their initial socioeconomic and group dynamics changed with the interjection of European manipulation and anti-Black bias practiced against persons having African Ancestry in the Tribes. European thought and race bias concepts prevailed upon the continent and negatively affected the Ethnic Natives, Black Indians and Indian Freedmen of the 5 Civilized Tribes in North America.
They faced near extinction as Europeans began forcing their Doctrine of Discovery, spread of Catholicism, and Manifest Destiny, upon North American Aboriginals using Papal Bulls, Charters, the introduction of Advanced Weaponry, Proxy Wars, Genocidal Wars of Extinction and Enslavement, they started claiming the pristine Aboriginal Country and fostered the Extinguishment of Native Title to Lands, including Titles held by Ethnic Natives, Black Indians and Indian Freedmen.

Despite their eventual "Slave" status within the Tribes, the Micro-Ethnic Protectorate (and their descendants) were elaborately included with purpose and certain specificity in the Treaties of 1865 and 1866 by the insistence of their Full Blood and Freedmen Indian Ancestors and Signatories of the Treaties. In fact Indigenous Ethnic Natives, Black Indians and Indian Freedmen were included in the aforementioned Treaty documents as Signatories, Representatives, Translators, Witnesses and Beneficiaries (Citizens-by Birth, En Masse Adoption and Naturalization, as Lineal Descendants, Heirs and Assigns).

Ethnic (Black) Indians of the 5 Civilized Tribes were entered as a Micro-Ethnic Protectorate into each of the treaties of 1866. Ethnic Natives were expressly included within the;

Cherokee Nation
"freed persons who were formerly slaves in the Cherokee Nation"; all free negroes not having been such slaves who resided in the Cherokee Nation prior to June first, eighteen hundred and sixty one."; "persons never having been such slaves"; "free persons of color";

Creek Nation
"there are among the Creeks many persons of African descent", "and all others, of whatsoever race or color, who may be adopted as citizens or members of said tribe." "Indians and freedmen", "loyal refugee Indians and freedmen"; persons of whatsoever race or color as may be permitted by said nation to reside as citizens therein".

Seminole Nation
"among the Seminoles persons of African descent and blood";

Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations
"persons of African descent"; "persons of whatever race or color, who may be adopted as citizens or members of said tribe", "all persons of African descent, resident in said nation at the date of the Treaty of Fort Smith, and their descendants" , to have all the rights of Native Citizens."

In spite of the fact that by the very same Treaties today's non-Ethnic Tribal Citizens are fully covered by Treaty of 1866 guarantees, Ethnic Black Indians have been/or continue to be illegally exiled, disenfranchised and alienated from their Treaty Rights.
The poverty stricken Tribal people have been forced to wage very expensive legal battles to regain their inherited rights, benefits and entitlements, including Trust Lands and Trust Funds."

The lineal descendants of the Original Indian Nation inhabitants have already been historically defined and identified by Treaty, Blood, Adoption, Residence, Geography, Law and Cultural Affiliation. We can't simply drop the Official Indian Citizenship Rolls of Persons having African Ancestry because they don't fit the modern idea of what Citizens should look like. Otherwise it's Ethnic Cleansing and a violation of the Human Rights of the Entitled.

If this is your time to Barbecue, be certain to include time to drop knowledge upon all your guests about all the issues surrounding the Fourth of July! Let the Fireworks spark dynamic thoughts of your own about Liberation, Independence and Autonomy!

"Remember The Tinman always had what he thought he lacked."

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Ezili Danto live in Miami with Sanba Yatande, TiRouj & Manno
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RBM Video Reel - Between Falling and Hitting the Ground
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Bwa Kayiman Video excerpt of Bwa Kayiman Ceremony
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Carnegie Hall Video Clip
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Ezili Danto's poetry - Written In Fire
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Ezili Danto Spoken Word Theatre Dance's Haitian Dance Workshops:

Master Haitian Dance
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Teenage Haitian Dance Workshops
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Children Haitian Dance Workshops
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West-African Haitian Dance Troupe
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