Counted as a person, but missing as a people? What the proposed census change could mean for Urban Indian visibility, health data and self-identification.

The Colonial Carolina Records That Expose a Forgotten American Indian Slave Trade FIRST TRIBE Historical Research Institute In 1693, according to one of the earliest histories of colonial South Carolina, twenty Cherokee leaders came to Charles Town asking for help. They were not there simply to negotiate deer skins, territory, or military alliances. They wanted their people back. Alexander Hewat's eighteenth century history records that Cherokee towns had been attacked, Cherokee people had...

Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: From Captivity to Power in Spanish Florida The African woman whose life exposes the contradictions of Kingsley Plantation She went from being a West African slave to being one of the most powerful slave owners in the South The surviving buildings at Kingsley Plantation tell only part of the story. Behind the plantation house, tabby cabins, fields, and waterfront stands the remarkable and deeply complicated life of Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley. Anna experienced...