{"id":32077,"date":"2013-07-04T20:50:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T20:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32077"},"modified":"2013-07-04T20:51:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T20:51:14","slug":"black-indians-an-american-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32077","title":{"rendered":"Black Indians: An American Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/richheape.com\/black-indians-american-story.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Black Indians: An American Story<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/richheape.com\" target=\"_blank\">Rich-Heape Films<\/a><br \/>\n2001<br \/>\n60 Minutes<br \/>\nClose Captioned<br \/>\nNTSC All Regions<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/richheape.com\/company.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Steven R. Heape<\/a> &#8211; Executive Producer\/Producer<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richieprod.com\/chiprichie.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Chip Richie <\/a>&#8211; Director\/Producer<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Earl_Jones\" target=\"_blank\">James Earl Jones<\/a> &#8211; Narrator<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Neville_Brothers\" target=\"_blank\">Neville Brothers<\/a> &#8211; Soundtrack<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/danielblakesmith.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Blake Smith<\/a> &#8211; Screenwriter<br \/>\nHoward Tyler &#8211; Editor<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlack Indians: An American Story\u201d\u2014 (as seen on ABC) brings to light a forgotten part of Americans past\u2014the cultural and racial fusion of Native and African Americans. Narrated by James Earl Jones, \u201cBlack Indians: An American Story\u201d explores what brought the two groups together, what drove them apart and the challenges they face today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distinguished Awards:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Award of Distinction, Indian Summer Festival 2005<\/li>\n<li>Cine Golden Eagle 2002<\/li>\n<li>Crystal Award of Excellence, Communicator Awards 2002<\/li>\n<li>Best Documentary, Native American Music Awards 2002<\/li>\n<li>Aurora Gold Award 2001<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A society that wants to build the future must know its past, its real past, as it was.\u201d But what if that past had been lost, forgotten, hidden, or denied?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlack Indians: An American Story,\u201d explores the issue of racial identity among Native and African Americans. This in-depth documentary examines the coalescence of these two groups in American history. Discounted, and often ignored by mainstream America, these minority peoples have often shared a common past. However, with their heritage ignored and their contributions denied they are all but invisible at the dawn of the new millennium.<\/p>\n<p>It was a black and white world in the early days of the Republic and little or no thought was given to people of mixed race, especially if they looked &#8220;black.\u201d \u201cWe were told \u2018if you could pass for white, that&#8217;s who you&#8217;d be; if not, it was usually better to be identified as black than Indian,\u2019&#8221; recalls Executive Producer Steven Heape. &#8220;It was this kind of thinking that later led to \u2018pencil genocide\u2019&#8211;changing one\u2019s race on a birth certificate to fit the skin color of the child.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e8uMAXPYpS0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/richheape.com\/black-indians-american-story.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Indians: An American Story Rich-Heape Films 2001 60 Minutes Close Captioned NTSC All Regions Steven R. Heape &#8211; Executive Producer\/Producer Chip Richie &#8211; Director\/Producer James Earl Jones &#8211; Narrator Neville Brothers &#8211; Soundtrack Daniel Blake Smith &#8211; Screenwriter Howard Tyler &#8211; Editor \u201cBlack Indians: An American Story\u201d\u2014 (as seen on ABC) brings to light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,8,3015,20,842],"tags":[15097,15099,15100,11892,15098,15095,3802,15096],"class_list":["post-32077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","category-videos","tag-chip-richie","tag-daniel-blake-smith","tag-howard-tyler","tag-james-earl-jones","tag-neville-brothers","tag-rich-heape-films","tag-steven-heape","tag-steven-r-heape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32077","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=32077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}