{"id":58721,"date":"2019-08-20T19:36:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T19:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58721"},"modified":"2019-08-20T20:13:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T20:13:23","slug":"after-years-of-searching-i-finally-found-my-black-indian-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58721","title":{"rendered":"After Years of Searching, I Finally Found My Black Indian Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Years of Searching, I Finally Found My Black Indian Community<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Zora<\/a>
\n2019-08-19<\/p>\n

Shonda Buchanan<\/strong><\/a>, Literary Editor
\nHarriet Tubman Press<\/em><\/p>\n

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The blood of two peoples runs in us, and we want everyone to know we are still here<\/em><\/p>\n

Dropping off a book at the Hampton Public Library, I glance at the counter and see a licorice-red flyer that says, \u201cCome Join the Weyanoke Association: African Americans Honoring Our American Indian Heritage.\u201d I look around. Is someone playing a joke on me?<\/p>\n

In August 2004, my daughter and I moved to Hampton, Virginia<\/a>, for my job at a Historically Black College<\/a>. Our first year was hard and lonely, and we desperately missed our communities back in Los Angeles and in the Los Padres National Forest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hate it here,\u201d Afiya said at least once a week as she tried to make friends in the ninth grade. I tried to placate her with the proverbial \u201cgive it time\u201d talks, but I had moved her away from her friends at 14, just as she was about to start high school. We had many \u201cI hate it here\u201d fights, but the truth was I was having a hard time finding my people, too. I missed the African American, African-centered communities, and the American Indian groups that had become my family over the years. This flyer seemed to be a sign: Little did I know I was about to find a space where both sides of my heritage combined…<\/p>\n

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