{"id":15334,"date":"2011-08-02T23:22:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T23:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15334"},"modified":"2011-09-14T21:30:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T21:30:57","slug":"indian-voices-creates-a-bureau-of-black-indian-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15334","title":{"rendered":"Indian Voices Creates a Bureau of Black Indian Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/content.yudu.com\/Library\/A1tbwb\/IndianVoicesJuly2011\/resources\/index.htm?referrerUrl=http:\/\/www.yudu.com\/item\/details\/378886\/July-2011-Indian-Voices\" target=\"_blank\">Indian Voices Creates a Bureau of Black Indian Affairs<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianvoices.net\" target=\"_blank\">Indian Voices<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianvoices.net\" target=\"_blank\">July\/August 2011<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:rdavis4973@aol.com\" target=\"_blank\">Rose Davis<\/a><\/strong>, Publisher<br \/>\n<em>Indian Voices<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At last a true Separate But Equal\u2014For the Good of the People<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dawes_Rolls\" target=\"_blank\">Dawes Rolls<\/a> (a census, used by the BIA [<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bureau_of_Indian_Affairs\" target=\"_blank\">Bureau of Indian Affairs<\/a>] to determine identity of Tribal members and citizens) came into existence in the 1890\u2019s. It was a time of \u201cSeparate but Equal\u201d and this \u201cflawed U.S. policy\u201d became the basis for the Full-Blood\/By-Blood vs. Freedman (no Indian Blood counted) rating system for Tribal Membership. US Dawes Rolls Enumerators using Separate but Equal techniques left the Freedman with an identity crisis which continues to this day.<\/p>\n<p>The policy of using Separate but Equal data gathering techniques negated the U.S governments requirement in the 1866 treaties that Blacks be treated as equal citizens.<\/p>\n<p>No one other than Phil Fixico has aggressively championed the cause of addressing and reversing this issue. As a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seminole\" target=\"_blank\">Seminole<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maroon_(people)\" target=\"_blank\">Maroon<\/a>\u00a0descendant he has written, lectured, networked and labored exhaustively to bring this issue into the social consciousness. The resulting Bureau of Black Indian Affairs is his \u201cbrain child.\u201d He has generously offered the project to the collective consciousness of the Indigenous community and has stated that he will take no part in it\u2019s operation or management. As a networking partner <em>Indian Voices<\/em> humbly takes on the task of launching the first Bureau of Black Indian Affairs in this July\/August 2011 issue&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/content.yudu.com\/Library\/A1tbwb\/IndianVoicesJuly2011\/resources\/index.htm?referrerUrl=http:\/\/www.yudu.com\/item\/details\/378886\/July-2011-Indian-Voices\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Voices Creates a Bureau of Black Indian Affairs Indian Voices July\/August 2011 Rose Davis, Publisher Indian Voices At last a true Separate But Equal\u2014For the Good of the People The Dawes Rolls (a census, used by the BIA [Bureau of Indian Affairs] to determine identity of Tribal members and citizens) came into existence in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,3015,20],"tags":[5562,7092,5269,7091],"class_list":["post-15334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-indian-voices","tag-phil-fixico","tag-phil-wilkes-fixico","tag-rose-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}