Native Americans wanting my black ass to celebrate “indigenous day” instead of columbus day like they didn’t literally own my family and other black people as slaves and like they’re not STILL extremely anti black to this day
It’s crazy too, because at work my coworkers kept asking me where did my surname come from because that’s just not a name that you see black people with and it’s like… yes sis, them motha fuckas are evil too!
“Obviously,” Smith said, “the story should be, needs to be, that the enslaved black people and soon-to-be-exiled red people would join forces and defeat their oppressor.” But such was not the case—far from it. “The Five Civilized Tribes were deeply committed to slavery, established their own racialized black codes, immediately reestablished slavery when they arrived in Indian territory, rebuilt their nations with slave labor, crushed slave rebellions, and enthusiastically sided with the Confederacy in the Civil War.”
In situations like these it’s mostly East coast groups like the Cherokee who had been around white people so long they were already neatly assimilated before being forcibly removed. They practiced slavery as brutally as the white man. It is however important to note that this was only some groups/lineage of Cherokee.
It’s more important to note that the Seminole, especially those aligned with Osceola, saw slavery as another white abomination. They purchased slaves and then set them free and also aided runaway slaves especially in the Florida swamps which was a good place to hide. They kept undermining white laws and were punished accordingly during the Forced Removal.
The Muskogee Creek also owned slaves. But since there were many off shoot bands(if you go back far enough this includes the seminole) so it’s difficult to say if the benefited from slavery l like the Cherokee.
It’s important to note some groups of creeks fought for the union in the civil war.
What I want to drive home is that every single tribe, nation, ethnicity or group of native Americans did not own slaves. The vast majority never did.
The vast majority of native americans were met during the westward expansion and had never picked up the practice of slavery. By that time the gov’t had decided to not negotiate or try to assimilate them but to just murder them all.
Please don’t have this attitude towards native americans because most of them did not own slaves. And for some of them being anti slavery sealed their fate.
If you really want to go tit-for-tat, when the land the 5 civilized tribes were given after being forced to move was cut up and given to settlers; half of those settlers were black .
Black people also benefited from the Dawes Severality Act while most native americans were forced into reservations while we got the land promised to them.
Some groups protected us but were left behind while we got to settle and they got put on reservations.
Oppression is not a contest.
Sure seems like oppression is a contest these days…
BREAKYOURSOULAPART 