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Q:        What was the characteristics of the Indigenous American Man?


A:         “There are certain qualities of his mind which shine forth in all the luster of natural perception - his simple integrity, his generosity, his unbounded hospitality, his love of truth, and above all, his unshaken fidelity - a sentiment inborn, and standing out so conspicuously in his character, that it has not untruthfully become its characteristic.”

(The Savage of America - quote from Lewis Morgan: The League of the Iroquois, 1851)


Q:         What was the character of the indigenous Black American woman?


A:         “In this case, their wives merit their esteem and most gentile treatment, they being industrious, frugal, careful, loving, and affectionate.” Always beaming with sunshine- whose sympathetic smiles chased fatigue away and changed the night of melancholy into day. They were truly beautiful and best of all, unconsciously so. (Chickasaw Nation; Mason 1922)

Women owned the property, transacted business, and carried on their own affairs freely. A woman’s ability to give birth stood not as her exclusive form of “fulfillment” but, as a symbol for her other forms of creativity; and her children were heirs to the female line of descent. There were no illegitimate children.


Q:        What about the Moral character of “OUR”  Anasazi or Indigenous Black American Ancestors?


A:         In 1775 – Bar tram states, in Chickasaw Nation, pp 487-488: “If we consider them with respect to their private character or in a moral view, they must, I think, claim our approbation if we divest ourselves of prejudice and think freely. As moral men and women they certainly stand in no need of European civilization.” “They are just honest, liberal, and hospitable to strangers; considerate, loving, affectionate to their wives and relations; fond of their children; industrious, frugal, temperate, and persevering; charitable and forbearing. I have been weeks and months amongst them and in their towns, and never saw an instance of an Indian beating his wife, or even reproving her in anger. In this case, they stand as examples  of reproof to the most civilized nations, as not being defective in justice, gratitude, and good understanding; for indeed their wives merit their esteem and the most gentle treatment, they being industrious, frugal, careful, loving, and affectionate.”

(Chickasaw Nation: Mason, 1922)


Q:        What kind of religion did “OUR” Ancestors have?


A:         The Indians (the “Ancient Ones”), by no means, were ever idol worshipers. They only worshiped the Great Spirit: the giver and taker away of the breath of life; with the most profound and respectful homage.  (Chickasaw Nation: Mason). Our ancestors recognized that we all connected in Spirit to this planet. We depend upon it for our support, and we are responsible to nature for our gift of life.


Q:        Did we have written language?

A:         Yes our written language was through pictures that represent properties of  natural Law. Our ancestors always understood the wholeness of message. Our written language consisted of pictorial messages.



Q:         Did we have Libraries?


A:        Yes, Our Ancestors had hundreds of libraries. The libraries were   located in our Mounds. The Mounds kept the heritage, history, and genealogies (bloodline) information about the origins of that peculiar clan of  people. The Library also contained the “ Secret Teachings”. These sacred text explained the complete systems that maintain the planet Earth, its relation to the universe, and the human history upon it. Example: After the raping of one of our Ancestor libraries, Napoleon was able to find what is now called Ancient Egypt. When in fact until the 1700’s North Africa was still an unheard of place to the European man.



Q:        What was our main technology?

A:        Agriculture, Botany, Environmental Development, and control over the natural elements; (example: the Rain Dance). 

 “OUR” Anasazi / Black American ANCESTORS understood every living plant and animal that lives on the land and how to work with them in harmony for many purposes.



Q:        What foods did we cultivate?


A:         Tomatoes, all forms of beans, cabbage, corn, tobacco, sugar, maple syrup, chocolate, coffee, squash, cucumbers, all potatoes (white or sweet), bananas, oats, rice, berries, peanuts, pineapple, avocados, lima, kidney, egg plant, kale, collard greens, turnips, onions, peppers, strawberries, cashew nuts, all herbs, and hundreds of other foods; plants unknown in Europe before the discovery of North America. 90% of all the world commodities of the European financial economy and foods produced in the United States today are the stolen planetary products cultivated and produced from the Anasazi female civilization the ancestral grandmother of the Black American people today... (the slaves of the United States).



Q:        What was the diet of the Anasazi/ Black American civilization of Mound Builders? 

A:         Fish, deer, elk, turkey, some game, but mainly vegetables.



Q:        What kind of clothes did we wear? 

A:         When the European arrived, the Anasazi /indigenous Amerindian People had already cultivated cotton and 200 other fibers into cloth. Denim  (blue jeans) is an indigenous fabric. Deerskin was used to make shoes, coats, and furniture. Gourds made bowls and clay pots were made, also.



Q:        What were the indigenous Black American Mound Builders’ favorite activities?  


A:         The SAME ONES WE HAVE TODAY! -PLAYING BALL: Games: BASEBALL, BASKETBALL, and SOCCER are    OUR ANCESTRAL sports – they are not from the Europeans. Dancing, singing and music was the Anasazi/  Black American  people  form of prayer. Dancing, singing and music were so highly cultivated that our Ancestors would dance for all occasions or reasons. Pastime activities also included gambling, numbers, the arts, trade and shopping.

Today, singing, music and dancing are still an important part of our culture, as well as creating art, gambling, lotto and shopping. 

The Anasazi /Black American people had the most extensive enterprise trade network in the World.   - (Just like today: our people still engage in their heritage; the only difference is, we no longer produce what it takes for our growth and generational survival through enterprise).



Q:        Did today’s Black American Mound Builders ANCESTORS have big families?  


A:        Yes, the average woman had from 10 to 21 healthy living children. Children were revered as gifts from the Great Spirit.

Children represented the continuation of the ancestral bloodline into the future - Life everlasting!!!  Children were cherished, loved, and protected. Never abused considered illegitimate, property, or abandoned.



Q:        How big was the average family?

A:         The Average Ancestral Black American family was an extended family network - meaning the core group would include the elders, the adults, the young adults, and the many children. Since the average woman produced 15-20 healthy living children, there were always more children than anyone else. The average family could have been as large as 200 people. This would explain why whites called them tribes.

Europeans, upon discovery, had never seen so many young people in their lives. A European woman on average is lucky to produce five children.


Q:        What kind of Education did the children receive?


A:        All children could swim across the river alone by the time they were 5 years old.  Children were completely disciplined in behavior, respect for culture, and boundaries by the time they were 5 years old. All children could completely sustain themselves without support from family by the time they were 12 years old. What this meant was that they were able to build a home and cultivate their own food and game, as well as complete training for an enterprise in the arts. Black American ancestors were the originators of the Boy and Girl Scouts ..



Q:        Did we live in tepees?

A:        No. We lived in round-earthen well-established log homes with palisades.  Many homes had hot water and saunas. These homes conformed to the natural elements in nature. Our towns and cities were connected by interlocking trade routes. For example: Interstate I-75 was a major route of “OUR” Indigenous (Black) American ANCESTORS used to travel form the northern cities to the southern cities..

Most of today’s travel routes in the United States are the trail, roads, and commerce routes for trade developed over thousands of years by the people from the Anasazi Nations or Black American Mound Builders ‘ancestral grandmothers civilization.



Q:        How long was the life span of Black Americans Indigenous ANCESTORS called the Anasazi?


A:         100 to 150 years. Many Black Americans today have relatives that live well into there 90's and over 100 years. 




Q:        Did our ancestors Develop their own medicine?


A:         Our ancestors knew every plant, and when and where it best grows. She knows every track  of bird, insect, reptile, and animal. They knew all signs of weather,

 Example from Chickasaw Nation pg 204 “ The Indian were thoroughly conversant, it would seem with about) every herb, bush, and tree in the wilderness within which they lived. Many of these were used for medicinal purposes and with astonishing effect according to the persons who lived amongst them.  For instance ,Adair says that, although there were many snakes and many of them poisonous, such as the rattle snake, the Indians had no fear of them, because they compounded herbs which rendered  the poison entirely innocuous. He says that when bitten by a venomous snake, the  Indian would commence chewing certain herbs with which he was provided and swallowing the same, and although he passed through paroxysms and rigors of pain, that without an exception the poison failed to take effect, and the Indian was soon well. Likewise they had remedies for nearly every complaint which were very efficacious   - Adair comments.


 

Q:        Did we have the diseases we have today?

A:        No. There was no form of disease until the European invasion in America. Many Black American people can still remember never being sick with colds or disease.



Q:        What diseases did the European Invaders bring?


A:         Cold, flu, measles, tuberculosis,  smallpox, chicken pox, used as germ warfare. All sexual transmitted venereal disease, lice, just to name a few. Some disease came with the importation of their animals.


Q:         What animals are NOT indigenous to this land?


A:         Sheep, cows. goats, horses, pigs, chickens, wasps and dogs. Our dog is the fox and coyote



Q:        What foods did the Europeans bring? 

A:         Milk, cheeses, bread, wine, whiskey,  and sauces.



Q:   What happened to our civilization economy and powerful trade networks.?


A:    All European countries including the Christian church sanctioned the sending of thousands of trading expeditions to our shores to steal the riches, control and enslave the people, rape the resources and destroy our Ancestral matriarchal civilization. take their liberty and give them death,( represented by the Statue of Liberty) discover an steal the riches including people. This was done thru trading, raiding and burning our government centers, blocking our routes for commerce and interchange, destroying thru burning  our commodities production, this is just a few ways that was implemented to stop and control our commerce and interchange between each other. The Anasazi people could no longer travel freely on their extensive interlocking water and land routes with out fear of persecution, kidnapping or death. from this new invading predator on their land- called the White man…  The Black American people had to change and confine themselves into isolated / independent communities or settlements instead of maintaining their ancestral interdependent communities in order to survive.   From this fragmentation the Black American peoples control over their vast economy and tremendous commodities production was slowly being dismantled. As a result the European invaders was slowly learning and taking control over the tremendous agricultural commodities, and planetary technology including the vast infrastructure   develop over centuries by this advanced race of Black American people. Using this as a foundation the Europeans then developed a country who’s main objective of their economy is to control and capitalize on the stolen ancestral technology from the Anasazi women/Black American peoples fertile crescent.


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