Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line

Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color LineVirginias Racial Integrity Act of 1924 recodified the states long standing racial hierarchy as a more rigid Black white binary. Then, Virginia officials asserted that no Virginia Indians could be other than legally Black, given centuries of love and marriage across color lines. How indigenous peoples of Virginia resisted erasure and built their identities as Native Americans is the powerful story this book tells. Spanning a century of fraught history,

chronicling what happened to the Taâino people when Columbus arrived and how their lives and culture were ruptured

Red Corn sets A Pipe for February against this turbulent

worldviews

she argues

borders are sealed

I Will Live for Both of Us provides key insights into Inuit history

Having spent all of his life steeped in and influenced by linear Western science

and racism in general

and fighting for economic and environmental justice

as Joy Harjo writes in her stirring introduction

Louis Warren speaks to all of us navigating the difficult terrain between past realities and present prospects

Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America