The African Americans Quest for True Identity Pt. 1

Hotep and Aquechewa (Peace and Greetings)! This month I have been on the search of the Indigenous people of America, and who they were. Growing up as a young buck, I heard of the stories of the Native Americans being exterminated with only a few hundred thousands of them left. The Native Americans today they show are as white as the Europeans I see everyday outside the confines of my home. All of the Afrocentric scholars said that the natives were our skin complexion but are they so white washed now? When I came into consciousness of Africa, I ran across this documentary on the Olmecs of Meso-America, and it caught my interest to know that Africans were already over here in the land mass we call America. I wanted to know more information about our ancestors that came to these shores but never could find any information, and still with today struggle to find it. We have been told all our lives that we were brought over on slave boats in the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade but is that true or false? I'm not saying the information is wrong or right but there is a lot of questions I have and they are legitimate especially in the age of enlightenment. Pictures I have download it on my computer is that there concrete evidence of dark skin copper colored people in America. So are we really from Africa? Do we control all of our information or do we get hand me downs from the same people that oppress us, gives us identity to tell us who we are? Negro, Black, Colored, Mulatto, African American, and African.  I'm not saying these terms are right or wrong but what do we define ourselves as people. We call ourselves by what they call us. Have we ever thought about that?  When Christopher Columbus landed in the West Indies, he described the people on the islands as dark skin people like the Ethiopians. Other Europeans who sailed to America described and drew pictures of the people of America as a dark skin and copper colored with Afros, long hair, or wavy hair. In Samuel Morton George's essay, "An Inquiry Into the Distinctive Characteristics of the Aboriginal Race of America", he states that all indigenous Americans except the Eskimos "are one race, and that this race is peculiar , and distinct from all others" (pg. 12). Canada, North America, Mexico, Central and South America the physical characteristics of the natives had "All possess the long, lank, black hair, the brown and cinnamon colored skin, the heavy brow, the dull and sleepy eye, the full and compressed lips, and the salient butt dilated nose" (pg. 12).

Black Californians (so called African Americans)

In the land we call the United States, the natives were heavily populated in the southern region (Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky) the mid-west region (Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota) and the west (California, Arizona, Oregon, and Washington) where all the major African American metro areas are resided. North America was known as Tula Turtle Island. A legend speaks of "According to Iroquois oral history, Sky Woman fell down to the earth when it was covered with water. Various animals tried to swim to the bottom of the ocean to bring back dirt to create land. Muskrat succeeded in gathering dirt, which was placed on the back of a turtle, which grew into the land known today as North America. Also known as Tula Turtle Island". There will more information coming soon about my research of our indigenous American ancestors of America. Hope you enjoy the information, stay blessed family.Hotep and Aquechewa!

There is a video below called Autochthon Amaru-Khan (Aboriginal American) by Ali Muhammad. A great educational lecture.