- Page from the book" The Yamassee Not Extinct"
Yamassee Native Americans, were described as “Woolly haired” dark “Negro” Indians, whose hair was different as described in Congressional documents held in Congressional archives even today. They were considered “Darker than the Creeks” . Now, to Say our Hair was different (let's see if anyone is paying attention), we obviously did not look like the typical 'Hollywood depicted' Indians, that our Grandmother and Grandfathers grew up watching on TV as young children. The 'Hollywood' Indians that were portrayed in black and white films were played by “White” actors.
Those images were deliberately shown for the sole purpose of having our Great Aunts and Uncles, and Grandmothers, mentally discard any identification with Indian ancestry via self-identity. Our aunts, uncles and grandmothers were to conclude that since they did not resemble what a TV Indian looked like, they must have been either half blood or weren't Indian at all, even though they might have known they had a full blood mother or grandmother identified as Indian. Watch the Movie “Apache” with Burt Lancaster (1954)
It is still designed for us, who as children growing up, watched popular cowboy and Indian movies with well-known actors such as John Wayne. So we would think about what we saw in Black & White movie's & say: “Even though I was Told Grandma or Grand Daddy was told to me to be a full blooded Indian, he didn’t look like the Indians in the movies, so I must be a Freedman or Mix Breed Indian.”
All of that was False Programming! The Media has been used for decades as a form of Psychological Programing. The purpose would be to embed in your mind what you see is true.
"Yamasee Indians were Negroes, what were known afterwards as the fiercest of the Indians tribes of the South- the well known Yamasee Indians were Africans”
Quote cited from the Congressional serial set United States Government Printing Office 57th Congress 1st Session. House of Representatives Document 179 Report of the Industrial Commission on Agriculture and Agricultural Labor Washington Government printing Office Year 1901, page 824.
The word “Negro” is used in the English-speaking world to refer to a person of black ancestry or appearance. The word negro denotes 'black' in the Spanish and Portuguese, derived from the ancient Latin word, niger, 'black', which itself ultimately is probably from a Proto-Indo-European root *nekw-, 'to be dark', akin to *nokw- 'night'.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 2000. p. 2039.ISBN 0-395-82517-2.
In the book titled: The Catawba Nation Edited by: Charles M. Hudson
Page 38.
“Moreover, the Conjurer was willing to fight the Savannahs, Yuchi and Appalachee, but he refused to fight the Yamassee because they were “his Ancient people” (Crane 1959: 181)
http://www.bigsiteofamazingfacts.com/what-was-the-yamasee-war-and-how-did-the-yamasee-war-start
“ In the early eighteenth century, the English established the colony of South Carolina on the territory of the Yamasee tribe.
The colonists treated the Indians terribly. They stole their land and captured many Yamasee and sent them to the West Indies where they were sold as slaves. By 1715, the Yamasee had had enough. They attacked the English and tried to drive them from their lands.
