Anita: I get the same response because my background is similar to yours. Those people who choose not to accept me and my family (mom Cherokee-English African American and from Northeastern Georgia,Dad,African-American and from Western,NC) can just go right on and stay the uninformed losers that they are. Jane Steele. Note: I attended NCCU and majored in history. What did you major in? The Hampton history of American Indian and African-American students attending classes together has a special warm place in my heart and will always be there. JS.
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>From: Anita Wills <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: May 17, 2007 9:03 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Indian Schools
>
>This is true as some of my mixed raced ancestors attended Hampton
>University. Even now I get a mixed reaction when I state that I have
>Native Heritage. It seems to be acceptable to be white/Native, but
>not Afro/Native.
>
>Anita
>
>
>
>-- John Frederick Fausz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>The more recent education of Indians IN VIRGINIA is recounted most
>engagingly, with superb photographs, in Mary Lou Hultgren and
>Paulette Fairbanks Molin, TO LEAD AND TO SERVE: AMERICAN
>INDIAN EDUCATION AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE, 1878-1923 (Virginia
>Foundation for the Humanities, 1989). This exhibit catalogue revealed
>Hampton's wonderful collection of Indian artifacts, which many of the
>students brought with them.
>
>In those years, almost 1,400 Indian students from 65 different tribes
>were educated along with African Americans at Hampton, and the
>gutsy experiment in biracial education was much praised and well
>supported for a time. Unfortunately, however, by the early 20th cen-
>tury, the race issue resulted in the loss of federal funding, in the
>biased belief that it was preferable to "elevate the red race
>[including
>warriors who had fought against the USA] to the level of the white
>race ... [rather than] degrade and humiliate him by sinking him to the
>lowplane of the negro race" (attributed to Texas Congressman John
>Hall Stephens, Chairman of the House Committee on Indian Affairs,
>quoted on p 52).
>
>Best from St. Louis,
>
>Fred Fausz
>
>
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Lillian Jane Steele
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