Yet there is no talk about reparations for the Native Americans...
A few points
1. Some would say federal recognition and the things that come with it are a form of reparations far more advanced than with American Blacks. I don't agree that reparations have been completely had, but the process hass begun at least.
2. the "five civilized tribes" as they were called were slaving nations, not all native americans have the same experience. In fact it took until Aug 2017 for the Cherokee Nation to finally accept and acknowledge tribal membership of Cherokee Freedmen by court ruling.
3. Most federally recognized tribes south of Maine to about Longisland as well as State Recognized tribes from New England to about Virginia descend in many ways from enslaved and free American Blacks. Mashpee Wamponoag, Shinnecock, Pequot, etc... are both federally recognized and legally indigenous while also black. One does not cancel out the other.
While testifying about this issue in a meeting with a committee of the state legislature in 1876, a Narragansett delegation said that their people saw injustices under existing US citizenship. The delegation mentioned Jim Crow laws that limited the rights of blacks despite their citizenship under constitutional amendments. They also resisted suggestions that multiracial members of the tribe could not qualify as full members of the tribe. One elder of the community spoke to state officials with this :
We are not negroes, we are the heirs of Ninagrit, and of the great chiefs and warriors of the Narragansetts. Because, when your ancestors stole the negro from Africa and brought him amongst us and made a slave of him, we extended him the hand of friendship, and permitted his blood to be mingled with ours, are we to be called negroes? And to be told that we may be made negro citizens? We claim that while one drop of Indian blood remains in our veins, we are entitled to the rights and privileges guaranteed by your ancestors to ours by solemn treaty, which without a breach of faith you cannot violate.
I think trying to pit two interwoven groups together who've both been fuck over by white people, white nationhood, white laws, colonialism, imperialism and other forms of general Whiteness is a silly, shortsighted and overall dismissive point made not to shine a light on indigenous people but rather not hold accountable those being asked to do something and instead point like a child and saying "BUT WHAT ABOUT THEM, THEY ARE MORE OPPRESSED".
So yeah
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