{"id":60291,"date":"2020-11-03T21:47:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T21:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60291"},"modified":"2021-04-18T17:48:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T17:48:21","slug":"olivia-ward-bush-banks-anchored-in-her-ancestry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60291","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Ward Bush-Banks: Anchored in Her Ancestry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvhs.org\/post\/olivia-ward-bush-banks-anchored-in-her-ancestry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Olivia Ward Bush-Banks: Anchored in Her Ancestry<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvhs.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Three Village Historical Society<\/a><br \/>\nSetauket, New York<br \/>\n2020-07-12<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tara Mae<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvhs.org\/post\/olivia-ward-bush-banks-anchored-in-her-ancestry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/b\/b4\/Olivia_Ward_Bush.gif\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone is influenced by their cultural background, either through acceptance, rejection, or some combination of the two. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Olivia_Ward_Bush-Banks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olivia Ward Bush-Banks<\/a> was a writer, journalist, historian, and dramatist. Her relationship with her Black and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montaukett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Montaukett<\/a> lineage, and her ties to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Long_Island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Long Island<\/a>, informed and inspired her work. In her writing and much of her other work, Bush-Banks amplified her cultural identity.<\/p>\n<p>During her life, Bush-Banks was a respected and valued figure in Black and Indigenous communities. Throughout her many travels, her ties to her heritage kept her grounded in her history even as her writing and outreach relayed it to a larger audience. Sustained by her familial ties, her work was driven by the need to provide for her family, and it elevated the effort of her pursuits.<\/p>\n<p>Born on May 23, 1869, in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sag_Harbor,_New_York\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sag Harbor<\/a>, she was the youngest of three daughters. Her parents, Eliza Draper and Abraham Ward, were each of Black and Montaukett descent. It was not uncommon for Blacks and Indigenous people to intermarry: such unions and their resulting families faced racism and discrimination. Her mother died when she was around 9 months old, and her father moved the family to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Providence,_Rhode_Island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Providence, Rhode Island<\/a>. Upon Abraham\u2019s remarriage, he gave Bush-Banks to be reared by her maternal aunt, Maria Draper, who raised her as her own. She studied nursing in high school but, encouraged and supported by Maria, developed a passion for drama and poetry&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvhs.org\/post\/olivia-ward-bush-banks-anchored-in-her-ancestry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone is influenced by their cultural background, either through acceptance, rejection, or some combination of the two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,8,3015,20,25],"tags":[31207,31206,31203,31201,31209,31208],"class_list":["post-60291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","category-women","tag-abraham-ward","tag-eliza-draper","tag-olivia-ward","tag-olivia-ward-bush-banks","tag-tara-mae","tag-three-village-historical-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60291","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=60291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60725,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60291\/revisions\/60725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}