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.


-----Original Message-----
>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