The Mississippians: Ancestral Descendants of Foundational Black American Freedmen whose Lineage trace as far back as the Woodland Period {1000 BCE} of America. 

Note: 1000 BCE is 3000 years ago.

The Descendants of this Indigenous Negro American Culture include the

1. Alabama 

2. Apalachee 

3. Arikara 

4. Caddo 

5. Chickasaw 

6. Catawba 

7. Choctaw 

8. Muscogee 

9. Creek 

10. Guale

11. Hitchiti 

12. Ho-Chunk 

13. Houma 

14. Iowa 

15. Kansa 

16. Koroas 

17. Missouria 

18. Mobilian 

19. Natchez 

20. Omaha 

21. Osage 

22. Otoe 

23. Pawnee 

24. Ponca 

25. Quapaw 

26. Seminole

27. Taensas 

28. Tunicas 

29. Yamasee 

30. Yazoos 

31. Yuchi
 

Which One Are You???

Events in America that Affected FBA Freedmen

RESEARCH

1526: San Miguel de Gual-da-pe.

1669: Casual killing Act.

1712: New York Slave Revolt.

1730: Chesapeake Rebellion.

1739: Stono Rebellion Charleston S.C. 

1739 - 1838: The Gullah Wars

1740: The Negro Act. 

1774: The Continental Congress Created. 

1775-1783: The Revolutionary War

1776: The Declaration of Independence was Signed. 

1777: The Articles of Confederation Created.

1786: Treaty of Peace & Friendship.

1786: Tignon Laws. 

1787: The U.S. Constitution was Written.

1790: Sundry Free Moors Act.

1790: First US Census. Copper Colored Americans listed as "Free People" or "Indian" 

1790: The Patent Act was Signed.

1800: Gabriel Prosser Rebellion. 

1801-1805:  First Barbary War.

1805: Great Fire of Detroit.

1811: German Coast Uprising.

1812-1815: War of Independence.

1814: Battle at Horseshoe Bend.

1815-1816: Second Barbary War.

1816: Battle of Negro Fort.

1816: American Colonization Society (ACS): Tried to Trick FBA Freedmen into believing they were from Africa and created a country for them to go to. 

1818: Battle of Suwanee.

1820: Great Savannah Fire.

1822: Denmark Vesey Rebellion.

1822: Liberia established the country ACS Created. 

1828: Webster's dictionary defines "American" as "a Native of America" originally applying to Copper Color Races. 

1830: Indian Removal Act.

1831: Nat Turner Rebellion 

1835: Great Fire of New York.

1835: The Dade Massacre.

1835: The Battles of Withlacoochee River. 

1837: The Battle of Lake Okeechobee.

1845: Great New York City Fire.

1850 -1880: Census Records reclassified Native Americans as "Mulatto" or "Colored"

1852/1854: Boston Fires.

1861-1865: Civil War.  

1862: The Homestead Act. Over 169 Million acres of land taken from Freedmen & given to white immigrants.

1864: Great Boston Herald Fire.

1865: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln who Negotiated Special Field Orders No. 15 (40 acres & mule)

1865-1869: President Andrew Johnson struck down the negotiation & enacted The Freedmens Bank.

1865: U.S. Congress Freedmens Bank.

1871: The "Night America Burned.

1874: Congress Shutdown the Bank. White Supremacist stole the equivalent of $1.3 Billion from FBA Freedmen. 

1881: Thumb Fire (Michigan)

1886: American Federation of Labor {AFL} created by Samuel Gompers. (white only union  jobs)

1886-1960: 100 Years of Lynching. {Newspaper Accounts}

1887: Dawes Act Allows white settlers to pay for indigenous status ($5 Indian)

1889: Great Seattle Fire.

1889: Santiago Canyon Fire (California)

1893 - 1914: Dawes Rolls Complete the reclassification of many indigenous people as "Negro".

1894: Great Hinckley Fire (Minnesota) 

1920: The Great Depression.

1944: The G.I. Bill. 

1956: Federal Highway Act. 

1962: Migration & Refugee Assistance Act.

1965: Immigration & Nationality Act.

1966: Black Panther Party.

1980: Refugee Act.  

1990: The Diversity Immigrant Visa program, aka The Green Card Lottery.