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Cherokee
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When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
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Apart from Cherokee freedpeople, Cherokee citizens also spoke out against the present of African Americans from the United States. In 1894, the editor of the Cherokee Advocate incited his fellow tribesmen to resist both Black and white migration, telling them to ‘Be men, and fight off the barnacles that now infest our country in the shape of non-citizens, free Arkansas ni—ers, and traitors.’
Anti-Black sentiment like this encouraged Native peoples to ignore Indian freedpeople’s shared histories
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― I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
― I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
