nooligan x Indigenous Peoples' Day
Indigenous Peoples' Day is a holiday that celebrates and honors Native American peoples and commemorates their histories and cultures.
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you thought we forgot? - we have a bit of a rough travel day back to the west (cant win em all, kid.), which threw off the schedule a bit. but, we are gonna celebrate regardless and we are excited offer up
1715:
in honor of indigenous peoples day
ltd edition of 100 ct
signed & numbered
in honor of indigenous people day:
native american slavery co existed with african american slavery from the 16th all the way through the late 19th century.
because african slavery was legal (at that time), its victims were easy to spot in the historic records - they were taxes upon arrival at ports, appear on bills of sale, wills and other documents. because these slaves had to cross the atlantic ocean they were scrupulous, one could say obsessively counted along the way.
The final tally of 12.5 million enslaved africans…until recently we didn’t have a ballpark estimate of native people held in bondage since it was largely illegal, so this had to be done in dark corners or behind locked doors.
native slaves didn’t have to cross the ocean, there were no documentation or port records.
yet…if we were able to count the number of native slaves counted in the new world from the time of
Columbus
until the end of the 19th century…the figure would run somewhere between 2.5 & 5 million slaves.
at the height of the slave trade west africa had a population decline of 20%
but in relative terms of the new world the indigenous people of the new world experienced a more catastrophic decline in the 16th and 17th centuries - in the caribbean basin along the golf coast and across large regions of northern mexico and the american south west - native populations were reduced by
70 - 90%
(ref: the other slavery by Andrés Reséndez)
other fun facts:
native american removal act (for example moved to reservations): 1830
womans rights: 1848
african americans freed: 1863
african american citizenship: 1866
african american vote: 1870
womans vote: 1920
native american citizenship: 1924
native american vote (snyder act): 1924
though it was state decided (arizona & new mexico were last 1948)
asian american citzenship / vote: 1940-1950s
available today only (10/11)