Michael M.C. Hampton's video: The Rhode Islander: When is an Indian not an Indian It s when he s a Negro 1843-1970

This channel is an indigenous American aborigine history and information channel for edification and self awareness for generations to come. To Enlighten Others Like I Have Been Enlightened. This is a non-profit channel. ---------------------------------------- Race, Nation, & Empire in American History EDITED BY James T. Campbell, Matthew Pratt Guterl, & Robert G. Lee THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS-CHAPEL HILL PART I Who's Who: American Encounters with Race. The Racial Vernacular Contesting the Black/White Binary in Nineteenth-Century Rhode Island JOANNE POPE MELISH On August 8, 1843, at the end of a letter to Elisha Reynolds Potter Jr., of South Kingstown, Rhode Island, concerning unrelated matters, Governor John Brown Francis segued to an upcoming celebration of the Narragansett Indians, to be held in Potter's hometown in the southern section of the state: "What is this great Indian powow," he asked. "I thought the Tribe were Negroes." More than a century and a quarter later, on February 22, 1970, the feature story in the Sunday magazine section of the Providence Journal-Bulletin, the major daily newspaper serving the state of Rhode Island, made essentially the same point. A bold, forty- eight-point footer running across two facing pages of the article read, "When is an Indian not an Indian? In South County, it's when he's a Negro." https://www.google.com/books/edition/Race_Nation_and_Empire_in_American_Histo/UbPqCQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Race,+Nation,+%26+Empire+in+American+History+EDITED+BY+James+T.+Campbell,+Matthew+Pratt+Guterl,+%26+Robert+G.+Lee+THE+UNIVERSITY+OF+NORTH+CAROLINA+PRESS-CHAPEL+HILL&pg=PT3&printsec=frontcover From the book by: Deborah A Rosen 2007 American Indians and State Law Sovereignty, Race, and Citizenship, 1790-1880 California Session Laws, 22 April 1850, ch. 142 (p. 428). It should be noted that in 1854 California found it convenient to classify Chinese people as "Indians" in order to include them in the prohibition against testifying in cases involving white parties. People of California v. Hall, 4 Cal. 399 (1854). American Indians and State Law Sovereignty, Race, and Citizenship, 1790-1880 https://books.google.com/books?id=ugKn0osL48EC&pg=PA259&dq=1854+California+found+it+convenient+to+classify+Chinese+people+as+%22Indians%22+in+order+to+include&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwizqMmc1Ir-AhVhk4kEHcoDCSwQ6AF6BAgEEAI from the book Race In Contemporary Medicine; 2013 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Race_in_Contemporary_Medicine/LfPaAAAAQBAJ?q=the+time+black+may+include+all+Negroes+but+the+time+negro+does+not+include+all+blacks&gbpv=1 =false Indian Slavery: An Unspoken History Brown University https://youtu.be/VZ8A52AC2LI --------------------------------------------------- AMER'ICAN, adjective Pertaining to America. AMER'ICAN, noun A native of America; originally applied to the aboriginals, or copper-colored races, found here by the Europeans; but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America. here's the app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rupp.android.dic.webster Fair Use Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted. United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Article 36 1. Indigenous peoples, in particular those divided by international borders, have the right to maintain and develop contacts, relations and cooperation, including activities for spiritual, cultural, political, economic and social purposes, with their own members as well as other peoples across borders Fair Use Guidelines https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/ AMERICAN DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES (Adopted at the third plenary session, held on June 15, 2016) Article XIV. Systems of Knowledge, Language and Communication. __________________