Blacks Also Owned Miles of US Pre-Columbian Lands
By Paul Barton, editorial, TOMRIC Agency (Dar es Salaam),
Washington D.C.—One of the saddest aspects of enslavement in the Americas, particular North America, is the fact that all forms of education was denied us and still is today. Blacks were forced to remain ignorant and told they have no history or culture.
Well, here is the problem, most African-Americans are still void of historical knowledge particularly of their ownership to lands right here in the U.S.
Blacks owned about one million square miles of land in the Louisiana Territories and the South Eastern/Florida region, as well as California. In all these areas of the U.S., there were Black African-American nations before Columbus, who were targeted for enslavement due to the Papal Edict that gave the Christian nations of Europe the go-ahead to make slaves of all descendants of Ham found in the newly discovered lands This fact cannot be denied. The essay on Black Civilizations of Ancient America, published as the great book; Susu Economics the History of Pan-African Trade, Commerce, Money and Wealth, tells a reality of this.
While many of Africans’ ancestors were kidnapped in Africa, many were Africans who came from West Africa, had a number of kingdoms and empires in the Southern parts of the U.S., and who were captured, had their lands taken and their persons sold into slavery. These Africans were direct black ancestors and their had a continuing connection with West Africa which included trade and commerce on the very eve of the invasion of the Europeans to the Americas.
In 1991, the U.S. returned about 68,000 square acres of land to the Washitaw Nation of Louisiana, one of the prehistoric Black nations of the United States (See www.hotep.org). This group of Blacks is the evidence of the Black ownership of land and the Black presence before English and Spanish/French colonization of North America.
Many Blacks living today are descended from the pre-Columbian Black nations and it is time that issue is included in the reparation discussion. They should locate who are the descendants of these pre-Columbian African nations in the U.S. (perhaps the entire mixed African-American population, since most of these Black tribes were enslaved and shipped to plantations and mixed with Blacks from Africa).
When discussing reparations, they must realize that more than the actual performance of slave labor was involved. The taking of Blacks aboriginal lands in North America was also involved in this great trade, which was part of a grand conspiracy by the European powers, in which they used biblical mythology to promote their policies.
Black researchers should do the work necessary to find the documentation proving that as recently as the 1800’s, the U.S. fought with a Black nation in California called the ’Black Californians, and that that Black nation ended up on slave plantations in the U.S., while others were sent to salt mines in Mexico.
The French and Spanish have documentation on the Black Washitaw Nation who once owned much of the annexed Louisiana Territories. In fact, the Washitaw Nation regard the states of Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Mississippi as Washitaw Proper, and as of this very moment, the Washitaw Nation is recognized by nations around the world as one of the most ancient nations in the Americas (See www.hotep.org).
According to the present leadership of the Washitaw Empire, the Wasitaw are the descendants of prehistoric African sea farers who settled in the Mississippi Valley Region and the Southern U.S., thousands of years Before Christ. They were boat builders, builders of pyramid mounds, Seafarers and practiced agriculture.
According to an article, www.wanoline.com (see also We Are The Washitaw, the Washitaw originally came from Africa and were Africans. The Washitaw are still African Negritic peoples and they, like many of the ancient Blacks who live in the Americas became victims of the Papal Edict which opened the way for the colonialization of the New World and the taking of people into slavery and occupation of their lands.
The Washitaw build hundreds of earthen pyramid mounds all over the southern and midwestern parts of the U.S. Some, such as the mound at Poverty Point in Louisiana is one of the most sacred sites of the Washitaw. Skeletons found in Washitaw gravesites from the pre-Columbian period show a tall people with characteristics similar to Africans.
It is time to get to do a thorough job on the reparation issue. What need to be done is not discussing how to parcel out the money we may receive, but how to gain lands taken from our ancestors and how to create a nation of independent minded people who will use their skills to rebuild the Black nation in America and return to the glorious renaissance Blacks had right here in the U.S., Mexico and Africa before European colonialism.
25 May 2001
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i beieve and honestly know that blacks were the first
wow, I dont know what to say, I am all for truth and open minded, but I gotta say is there any anthropological evidence that black africans are the supposed tribe of peoples this article is describing?, It seems this website just caters to the black man, and robs alot of other cultures of their heritage.
It seems that after admitting that you were ignorant of the topic and that you would need to do more research and get more information, you still attacked the work of this website. How smart of you does that sound? Are you a truth seeker or are you threatened by the truth?
Jahdey
To a person: Europeans and their mixed offsprings robbed us of our heritage..We are just finding that out.. everything Euro-Asians have was taken from the indigenous people on this planet. “When you don’t have a past, Kill & steal.” That’s what Euro-Asians do best. Get over it, truth hurts. Do you need a bandaid, sticker, or sucker to ease the pain?
It doesn’t “rob cultures” this article states that there was alot of history purposely overlooked, not taught in school. If you want the truth, it’s refreshing to find out the TRUTH.
“While many of Africans’ ancestors were kidnapped in Africa, many were Africans who came from West Africa, had a number of kingdoms and empires in the Southern parts of the U.S., and who were captured, had their lands taken and their persons sold into slavery”
Where is the evidence of these kingdoms and empires in the Southern US? And, where is the evidence of the pyramids in West Africa?
A settlement does not constitute a kingdom; nor a tribe an empire. Your exaggeration of facts and apparent ignorance of scientific proof (especially in regards to your article on the Olmecs) makes you look like the one who fears the truth.
Then what is your definition of a Kingdom? Every settlement would need to have a leader so the settlement would stay civilized and in order. Africans have very ancient Kingdoms (settlements) in fact the 1st civilizations on Earth were African civilizations as Africans were the 1st people on Earth. In order to have civilization there has to be people and agriculture present as people would need food to function day to day activities. Recently a 200K yr old civilization has been found in South Africa in which a calender and statues of (Heru) Horus a Nile Valley deity has been found.
The ones who fear the truth are the ones who have changed or left out historical facts throughout the diaspora and made light of significant contributions made by people of color.
theres no evidence that shows people of non color having a structured and civil society in europe more than ten thousand years ago, but the whole world knows africa had several societies 35- 40 thousand years ago. Greek philosophers(Homer, Plato and others) would have mentioned these caucasian societies, as they mentioned the ethiopians and how much knowledge they attained from africans and attended universities there. Native american history is a hugely oral and pictoral one that mentions people of color in their land before colombus. If i descended from barbarians ( europeans) at a time when the rest of the world was civil and cultured i would try to hide those facts too out of embarassment and i may obscure facts about other cultures, ALL of civilization started in africa, native americans had color so they most apparently migrated from africa and the aboriginals( Austrailia), whites were only concentrated in tiny europe and non pertinent until King Ferdinan and Queen Isabella sanctioned slavery by gods will,,,sounds like manifest destiny, giving permission to destroy native americans (or expand caucasian intrest),,, by gods will of course ,President Jackson
Not disagreeing with the black nations being here 3,000 years ago, but the notion that somehow they are “owed reparations” is sheer greed. They (and all native tribes which were here before the arrival of those horrid Europeans) ARE CONQUERED PEOPLES! So, GET OVER IT!!!!
Hmmm lets see…..The so-called Jews were Conquered by Hitlers army but yet they have been awarded reparations and the Light skinned Native Americans have also been conqured by the Spanish and yet awarded reparations….Why is it every time dark skinned people ask for their compensation people want to disqualify them? Is it because the Moors ruled Spain for 700+ years before they were finally defeated? Probablly. But with this truth revealed, why wont the Europeans just admit that African Americans are in reality the decendants of Moors! That would be a reparation in and of itself.
black people should never argue facts with a people who have always lied to us
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