The general public knows very little of Indigenous enslavement in the U.S. and Latin America. A new project is set on changing that a massive website uncovering the enslavement of Native Americans.
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The death of George Floyd two years ago drew attention to systemic racism and the legacy of slavery, but the general public knows very little of Indigenous enslavement in the U.S. and Latin America.promises to digitize and piece together stories of the millions of Indigenous people whose lives were shaped by slavery.
Using documents, baptismal records, letters and oral histories, the site will allow people to search for Native Americans who were enslaved and locate possible descendants.— a database that gathers records about the lives of enslaved Africans and their descendants.Indigenous slavery co-existed with African slavery from the sixteenth up to the late nineteenth century, Andrés Reséndez wrote inHe estimates that between 2.
Apache members were enslaved in the American Southwest and sold to work in mines in Mexico. Latter-day Saints settlers in Utah purchased enslaved Native Americans and converted them."We are doing this for descendant communities to find themselves their ancestors reflected in an archive,""This will be made for the general public, for artists, for media for other scholars."
Rael-Gálvez said like enslaved Africans, enslaved Native Americans were stripped of their tribal identities and family connections. Many descendants might not even know their links.
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