BLACK INDIANS
FROM JUDAHLYFE FLIMS
Transcript
00:00Oh, there's a beat, that's a vibe
00:30They keep trying to run the Outer Africa story
00:40So they would not ever have to pay us reparations with our land
00:47They've took all the land, even the black farmers are having problems
00:53Being reduced almost to nothing
00:57These people that stole everything, our total heritage
01:03The Blackfoot, the Seminole, the Creek, the Cherokee
01:11And so many other tribes, the whole Anasazi nation of blacks
01:16Here running this country and building most of these old, old buildings
01:21You see still standing, these Europeans are nothing but parasites
01:28Stand up and wake up
01:51Oh, it's good
01:54I'm getting old, honey
01:56You're getting old, but you look pretty
02:01You look very pretty
02:05You look like...
02:08And this is one of the biggest lies they ever told us
02:12That we are from Africa, the skin of the black
02:14We are not from Africa, we were always here on this land
02:18We didn't come from no Africa
02:19You're Indian?
02:20Oh, come on, man
02:21You gotta be kidding me
02:22What kind of Indian are you?
02:23Like Tonto Indian?
02:24Shitty cock Indian
02:26I had no idea about the history
02:28I had no idea how inclusive this group is and what it means
02:32To be part of Standing Rock and be part of the United Sioux Nations
02:34Well, I have one, it's my tribal tattoo
02:36I'm from, you know, the Pamunkey tribe
02:38Standing Axe, my brother
02:39Yo, brother, what's your name?
02:40My brother's from Redfoot in Blackton, India
02:44What?
02:45Yeah, my mother and my father did
02:46I'm seeing you
02:48I've been in the business so long
02:50And I'm the only Indian in the business today
03:09...and her tribe do not officially exist
03:11They're not entitled to federal support
03:15We are punished today because we helped free slaves
03:19Because we helped free slaves
03:21Because we helped free slaves
03:24Okay?
03:26If my tribe never helped free slaves
03:29They may never would have bothered us
03:31If we would have just continued helping Europeans as they came in
03:35We were fine
03:36But when we decided to help the slaves
03:38Now we did something wrong
03:40So that's why I don't have my recognition
03:43Are these pictures photoshopped, too?
03:59As an Indian, because of African descent
04:02Why am I this color?
04:03Because this is the color of my ancestors
04:05Indian territory is trash
04:08Like, people be thinking Indians with the...
04:11With the Pocahontas looking
04:13That ain't how Indians look
04:14They look like them people in New Orleans
04:16And all of them had each other's names tattooed on them
04:19And this was when I was younger
04:20I didn't understand it
04:21But then when I started going to New Orleans
04:23Like, you know, on tour and shit
04:24We tried
04:25The way they are with each other
04:27They love each other a different way than everybody else
04:31We're gonna talk about the black Indians I met
04:33That are still alive
04:35No, go ahead, let's talk about them
04:36Go ahead
04:38Well, the truth to that lies with the anthropologists
04:41If they tell the truth
04:42Because as they dig into the grounds
04:44They have found people
04:45And they know they look like I look
04:50A few weeks ago, a guy was digging
04:52A pool in his backyard
04:54In the downtown area of New Orleans
04:58You see, New Orleans was small at one time
05:00And this area was country
05:03And they hit six feet down
05:06Six feet down, they hit a casket
05:09What casket down here?
05:11It was a cypress casket
05:13Cypress wood
05:15Now, you know, when you dig down more than a foot or two
05:17In New Orleans, you're gonna hit water
05:20Cypress is a tree that's grown in a swamp
05:23It does not rot
05:25Cypress, this cypress casket
05:27Has been good for a few hundred years
05:29They found black Indians
05:31Inside with black artifacts
05:33Indian artifacts
05:36They went, they said, well, let's dig north
05:38Dig north instead of that right here
05:40They went north to casket
05:42South, you know, east, west
05:45They found that there's a graveyard
05:47An ancient graveyard
05:49That's almost a mile in
05:53North, south, east, and west
05:54Almost a mile apart, almost
05:57And they found out that
05:59Since when they weren't able to go any further
06:02Laterally, like we dig graves
06:04They started digging down
06:05One on top of the other
06:07And they have found, so far
06:0920,000 graves
06:11Black Indians
06:14Wow
06:15Okay, and this is about to hit
06:17It hasn't hit yet
06:18This happened a few weeks ago
06:19You haven't heard on the news yet
06:21But it's gonna hit the news
06:22Because it's gonna leak out
06:24They're hushing it right now
06:26As you're aware, in 1912
06:28Dr. Walter Plecker became the first director
06:30Of the Bureau of Vital Statistics
06:32Prior to that, there were no birth certificates
06:33And he was a director up until
06:35The 1940s, 1946
06:37Until his death
06:39But he was part of the eugenics movement
06:41Which was a movement about creating one race of people
06:43Which was white, and everything else
06:45Was put in a pot, as Tina Marie would say
06:47And stir it up and call it colored
06:49But he went beyond board on that
06:51Wherein, as far as First Americans are concerned
06:54He changed birth certificates and marriage license
06:56He even put out letters to census takers in 1930
07:00That people such as myself
07:01That are First Americans, are Native Americans
07:03That he considered us as being bastards
07:05That we were just trying to be Indian
07:06To marry into the white race
07:08What's so interesting about that
07:09Was that in the 30s, he gave a presentation
07:11In New York City on eugenics
07:14And there were commanders associated with Adolf Hitler
07:17That attended that particular meeting
07:19But basically, when he was the registrar
07:22For the Bureau of Vital Records
07:24He changed the names of Indian people
07:27In Southampton County
07:28Exactly
07:29From Indian to Negro, or colored
07:33It was referred to as colored
07:35And basically, all the tribes in Virginia
07:38In the early 1900s were referred to as colored
07:40Then after the 1924 Racial Integrity Act
07:43Everything that was in that colored bowl
07:45Became Negro
07:47Africans were here before the Europeans
07:50So what do you do with the heads in Mexico
07:54That you find in San Lorenzo
07:56At Tres Zapotes
07:58What do you do with those?
07:59You ignore them
08:01What do you do with Columbus' diary
08:05That says, the Africans know a way to the west
08:08But it goes around the doldrums
08:10We will never survive
08:11What do you do with that?
08:12You ignore it
08:14What do you do with Balboa's diary
08:16That says, we came upon this African village
08:19In the Isthmus
08:20How did these Africans get here?
08:22What do you do with that?
08:23You ignore it
08:25Why?
08:26Why?
08:27To preserve the myth that the Europeans were here first
08:31Africans were here before
08:33Indigenous black people have been in the Americas
08:35For thousands of years before slavery
08:38And Christopher Columbus
08:40In Columbus' own diary
08:42His son, Ferdinand Columbus
08:44Confirmed that his father did in fact
08:47Meet black tribes upon reaching the New World
08:51Explorers like Giovanni Verrazzano
08:53When he got to the Carolinas
08:55He met the Cape Fear Indians
08:57Who he said resembled the Ethiopians of Africa
09:01Explorers like Hernando de Soto
09:03When he got to Florida in 1512
09:06He started warring with the Florida Indians
09:09Who he described as big, black, and had woolly hair
09:14Also, in the book called
09:15Primitive Black Nations of America
09:17Constantine Rapinus points out
09:20That the black Indians met the Spaniards
09:23In Louisiana in 1543
09:26We've always been here
09:28We are the indigenous people
09:30This is why racism just doesn't make sense to me
09:33You've got people in Africa
09:35Who are literally the descendants of Chinese people
09:38Look at their features
09:40They got those Chinese features
09:42The eyes
09:44Like the face in a lot of ways
09:46Racism doesn't make sense
09:48Because we all are connected to each other in some way
09:52Prejudice
09:53Hate
09:54All that doesn't make sense
09:55This is the Jumosai tribe
09:57And these guys are connected to the Nusai
10:00Botswana, South Africa
10:02My grandmother came from this tribe, kind of
10:06RCO
10:07For those of you who do not know
10:09The Mayan word for son
10:11Is kain
10:12Or kin
10:14Now what do we American Indians
10:16Also known as black people
10:18Call each other
10:20Kinfolk
10:21You see, you've been practicing your culture this entire time
10:24You just didn't know it
10:26Peace to the gods
10:35The majority of African Americans that lived here
10:39Were brought over here
10:41No
10:42No
10:43No, that's not economically sound
10:44What do you mean by it's not economically sound?
10:46So what I'm saying is
10:48People were already here
10:50Does it make sense to go all the way to this other continent
10:53To bring people on a boat
10:55When we know that half of your stock is going to die?
10:58You wouldn't do that
11:00So how many people do you think were brought over from Africa on slave ships?
11:03Because that definitely happened
11:05I don't believe it
11:07What do you mean you don't believe it?
11:08I don't believe that story
11:09You think this whole land was empty?
11:11No, there were natives here
11:13But today we're taught that natives are some other people
11:16No, natives are the melanated African being that has come here
11:20Since the beginning of the Mali Empire
11:23We're talking about 14th, 13th century
11:26We had already come here from Africa
11:28Real?
11:29Oh, yeah
11:30Yeah, we had already come here
11:32You know, maybe people were brought over as slaves
11:35But I don't think that the black people in America
11:39Came from Africa on slave ships
11:42I believe the people that were here were slowly conquered
11:45They got to the east coast
11:46And then they started spreading out west, little by little, conquering
11:49And when you conquer a tribe, what do you do?
11:51You enslave them, they're POWs
11:54Right?
11:55Okay
11:56That's what you do
11:57But I'm still confused
11:58There's a great history of slave ships being brought over from Africa
12:02History is his story
12:04Right
12:05What about my story?
12:07Is my story not valid?
12:09But if you do 23andMe
12:1223andMe
12:16Either way, if you take black people here in America
12:19And you do their DNA sample
12:21And it points back to Africa
12:22What does that say?
12:23It says black people in America are Africans
12:25Now the argument is
12:26Were we brought here or were we already here?
12:30Did we bring ourselves here?
12:32Or did the white man bring us here?
12:34You see, when you say the white man brought us here
12:36What you're doing is you're removing
12:38Our ability to transport ourselves
12:41You're saying, oh, we didn't know anything about boats
12:44That's what you're trying to tell me
12:45You're trying to tell me that we didn't know that there was a landmass here
12:48Go look at the primary source
12:49You got here, we met black people
12:50We got to the Caribbean, we met black people
12:52You think the Caribbean is right next to America
12:54And they weren't in America?
12:59That's interesting
13:00Does it make any sense?
13:02I mean, when you go and you look at real European history
13:06You would believe that if they took a bath, it was bad
13:11They didn't even want to change their clothes
13:13They thought that dirty was purity
13:16When we talk about the Moors going into Spain and into Europe
13:21The stories in the history, our history
13:25Says that when we met the so-called Caucasian
13:29He was sleeping in the barn with the animals
13:31And we told him, no, you can't sleep in the barn with animals
13:33We taught them etiquette
13:34We taught them running water
13:36We brought that technology to Europe
13:38Now, if we brought the technology to Europe
13:40That saved Europe from the Black Plague
13:43You mean to tell me that if we save the white race
13:47That we weren't already in America already
13:49When we brought the technology
13:51When Rome was dependent on Africa for food
13:57Remember when the Black Plague hit Rome
14:00The cause was one of the officials was stealing the grain
14:05That was coming from Africa
14:09So there was famine hit Rome
14:12If your source of sustenance is from Africa
14:18How are you superior?
14:24You're not, you get your food from me
14:28So if you get your food from me
14:30Who's more likely to travel this globe?
14:35Me, I'm the source of food
14:37And that's the first thing you need to survive on this planet
14:58Philippe has been on previous expeditions with me
15:01And he knows these stone axes are deadly weapons
15:57Go, go, go
16:28Okay
16:42This one for some reason is terrified by my black bag
16:48It tastes the salt that I brought as a gift
16:58I can't breathe
17:05Danger, his breathing is short
17:08A sign of fear
17:28The African-American is the original American Indian, not African
17:35Ancient hieroglyphs of civilizations in America prove black people been here
17:44I don't know what's going on
17:46I don't know what's going on
17:48I don't know what's going on
17:50I don't know what's going on
17:52I don't know what's going on
17:54I don't know what's going on
17:58Fighting against invaders
18:05The oldest bones found in America are of black people
18:11Present day black people still match the hieroglyphs found in ancient America
18:16Ancient traditions and cultures are still carried by the black Indians of America.
18:28European thought it was funny to display the fight of the original people and the invaders.
18:35Don't forget say the historian told you this.
18:40Take over their buildings. New York was already there for thousands of years.
18:44San Francisco was there for thousands of years. Los Angeles was there for thousands of years.
18:48They were built by the indigenous people who were black and Indians as well.
18:55The black people, they weren't brought over by slaves. They are the original owners of America.
19:01Black people. African Americans. They don't come from Africa. They were already here.
19:10The Narragansett families who wish to remain traditionally as their ancestors had been,
19:21made sure there was the teaching. Go out there and learn all that you can from these people.
19:30But never forget who you are. Never forget you have your own language,
19:36your own religion, and your own way of acceptance.
19:45In Rhode Island, some citizens who did not own property had to wait until 1928 before they were
19:51granted voting rights. But three groups were still officially barred by state law from casting
19:56a ballot. Paupers, the mentally incompetent, and Indians. The only way the Narragansetts
20:04could participate in elections was by identifying themselves as African Americans. Charles Ernest
20:11Hazard confronted officials who enforced this practice. His brother Joseph, one of the oldest
20:17members of the Narragansett nation, recalls the moment. Indians couldn't vote. So he went up to
20:25the statehouse and he says, he saw the charter that the Indians can't vote. And he says,
20:33you're voting, ain't you? And he says, no. He says, I consider myself a Narragansett Indian.
20:41If I vote, I'm voting under Negroes could vote, but not an Indian. He said,
20:47I consider myself a Narragansett, not a Black. So I'd like to have that changed.
20:55I don't know who needs to hear this, but claiming that the original Native Americans were Black
21:00is indigenous erasure and not productive.
21:06So I wanted to start with that. Nobody's claiming that you guys are Black.
21:11What we're simply claiming is you guys are not the original inhabitants. Like for instance,
21:16you guys are mainly talked about, yet the first Indians to ever meet the pilgrims were Black.
21:22And when you truly look into history, you find out that the first tribes that had ever met the
21:27Europeans here in America all got enslaved in this land. It's not until the end that you start
21:33hearing about the so-called Mongolian Native Americans. By exposing what Indians were truly
21:39native to this land just shows Black people are the original Indians. And it's written in the
21:45hieroglyphs of the Mayans. But no, we're not stating they were Black. We're stating they
21:51were the first invaders. 100 years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of
21:59American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. Now, have you ever wondered what
22:05that passage meant from Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech? I did. And what I found was
22:11one of the biggest secrets that's not really a secret at all, except to many African Americans
22:16is they are not descended from Africans. I know. I was shocked too, so much so that I asked
22:23Africans and they agreed African Americans weren't Africans. If you don't believe me,
22:29Google Arnoldus Montanus America and see the people he saw in 1671. Read books like
22:37The Black American Handbook for Survival Through the 21st Century by Ray 9 Amin Ra.
22:43What Every African American Should Know by Carrie Davis and Africans and Native
22:48Americans by Jack Forbes. I just can't believe schools aren't teaching this stuff. What a travesty.
22:58More from the book Revealing America's Dark Skin Past, Volume 1. The Mound Builders.
23:04When the Europeans first arrived to what is now southeastern United States,
23:08they encountered a Negroid often described as copper-colored culture of people that
23:13later became known as the Mound Builders. Mound Builders is a general term referring
23:19to the indigenous inhabitants of North America who constructed various styles of earthen mounds
23:25for burial, residential, and ceremonial purposes. The Mississippian Mound Builders, dated from 1000
23:32CE to 1700 CE. CE refers to the Christian or Common Era, is the culture that the Europeans
23:40encountered and this culture is considered to be probably the most advanced society that arose in
23:46North America. This was a city-building society supported by agriculture and marked by the
23:52building of pyramid-like mounds. The cities consisted of enormous conical pyramids, excavated
23:59areas, vast terraces, irrigation canals, wells, ponds, underground passages, and causeways,
24:07all of them constructed in a manner so substantial that they remain perfectly discernible
24:14until this day. According to competent engineers, it would take several thousands of our workmen
24:21provided with all the resources of our grand modern industries long years to erect some of
24:27their monuments, among which there are such a rival the Egyptian pyramids in grandeur.
24:36The number of these grand monuments is almost incalculable. The idea that American Indians
24:42could have built something resembling a city was so foreign to European settlers.
24:48They commonly thought they must have been the work of a foreign civilization, Phoenicians,
24:55or Vikings, or perhaps a lost tribe of Israel. The Mississippians were also great agriculturalists.
25:02They built vast canal systems that connected lakes that could be followed for hundreds of miles.
25:09These canals were created not only to irrigate the dry lands but also provide the means for
25:16the society to flourish through trade with neighboring cultures. The remnants of these
25:22cities, artifacts, mouse structures, which mimic celestial body movement and compare in size to the
25:29Egyptian pyramid, kiln-burned pottery, etc. indicate that the indigenous cultures of America were not
25:36the savages that history has taught us they were. And if we make another step into our study of relics
25:43we shall be compelled to admit that they were extraordinary skillful advanced in art and not
25:48deprived of a high degree of science expected to be found among so ancient a nation.