“One of the engagements in which he took part was the rounding up of Indian insurrectionists in the famous ‘Crazy Snake Rebellion’ in the Creek Nation of Indian Territory where Henryetta, Okla., now is located. He helped lay out Fort Huachuca in Southeastern Arizona, and took part in quelling a Navajo rebellion at Shiprock, Arizona.”
Las Cruces Sun-News, Sunday, March 30, 1947
The condition of Blackness came with a colonizer and led to many Faustian bargains. The #BlackdomThesis explains The Black Colonization Continuum’s intersectional consistency of Black military, ministers and freemasons, and their relationship to “freedom colonies.” During the American Revolution, Black Loyalists who fought for the British, and colonized West Africa to the detriment of the Indigenous. The Black and ambitious often entered an intersection of limited freedoms with a desire for sovereignty, and military service as a path of least resistance. Serving in the military offered an education, a paycheck, and benefits. In the Borderlands, Indigenous peoples were collateral damage to the influx of people claiming Whiteness. The condition of Blackness accentuated the larger racialization project. Blackdom was built on stolen Indigenous land.
by Dr. Timothy E. Nelson ©
Roswell Daily Record, Wednesday, May 19, 1920
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