{"id":17153,"date":"2011-10-21T01:39:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T01:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=17153"},"modified":"2012-03-24T18:41:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T18:41:35","slug":"documentary-genocide-families-surnames-on-racial-hit-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=17153","title":{"rendered":"Documentary Genocide: Families Surnames on Racial Hit List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/peterhardin.com\/?p=97\" target=\"_blank\">Documentary Genocide: Families Surnames on Racial Hit List<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Richmond Times-Dispatch<br \/>\n2000-03-05<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/peterhardin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Hardin<\/a><\/strong>, Former Washington Correspondent<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>Long before the Indian woman gave birth to a baby boy, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Virginia<\/em><\/a><em> branded him with a race other than his own.<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe young <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monacan_people\" target=\"_blank\">Monacan Indian<\/a> mother delivered her son at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lynchburg,_Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Lynchburg<\/a> General Hospital in 1971. Proud of her Indian heritage, the woman was dismayed when hospital officials designated him as black on his birth certificate. They threatened to bar his discharge unless she acquiesced. The original orders came from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richmond,_Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Richmond<\/a> generations ago.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nVirginia\u2019s former longtime registrar of the Bureau of Vital Statistics, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walter_Ashby_Plecker\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Walter Ashby Plecker<\/a>, <strong>believed there were no real native-born Indians in Virginia and anybody claiming to be Indian had a mix of black blood.<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u00a0<br \/>\nIn aggressively policing the color line, he classified \u201cpseudo-Indians\u201d as black and even issued in 1943 a hit list of surnames belonging to \u201cmongrel\u201d or mixed-blood families suspected of having Negro ancestry who must not be allowed to pass as Indian or white.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWith hateful language, he denounced their tactics.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201c . . . Like rats when you are not watching, [they] have been \u2018sneaking\u2019 in their birth certificates through their own midwives, giving either Indian or white racial classification,\u201d Plecker wrote.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTwenty-eight years later, the Monacan mother\u2019s surname still was on Plecker\u2019s list. She argued forcefully with hospital officials. She lost&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;\u201cIt\u2019s not that we\u2019re trying to dig him [Plecker]\u00a0up and re-inter him again,\u201d said Gene Adkins, assistant chief of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chickahominy_people\" target=\"_blank\">Eastern Chickahominy Tribe<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cWe want people to know that he did damage the Indian population here in the state. And it\u2019s taken us years, even up to now, to try to get out from under what he did. It\u2019s a sad situation, really sad.\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSaid Chief William P. Miles of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pamunkey\" target=\"_blank\">Pamunkey Tribe<\/a>: \u201c<strong>He came very close to committing statistical genocide on Native Americans in Virginia.<\/strong>\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/peterhardin.com\/?p=97\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documentary Genocide: Families Surnames on Racial Hit List Richmond Times-Dispatch 2000-03-05 Peter Hardin, Former Washington Correspondent \u00a0 Long before the Indian woman gave birth to a baby boy, Virginia branded him with a race other than his own. \u00a0 The young Monacan Indian mother delivered her son at Lynchburg General Hospital in 1971. Proud of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,1467,8,3015,26,20,693],"tags":[7956,7957,20757,6372,1857,2474],"class_list":["post-17153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-politics","category-usa","category-virginia","tag-peter-hardin","tag-richmond-times-dispatch","tag-virginia","tag-walter-a-plecker","tag-walter-ashby-plecker","tag-walter-plecker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17153","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=17153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}