Did these Federal Documents prove Foundational Black Americans do have Indigenous Ancestry?

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]Peace and black power, family. It's your brother Chase and I'm here with the first ever episode or edition or video of foundational black American archives where we do deep deep deep diving on foundational black American history using primary sources. Okay, so some of you might know me from my foundational black American history page where we react to some of the tethers, some of these detractors, some of these Pan-Africanists who try to tear down the lineage. On this page, we highlight the primary sources that build up the lineage and prove many of the talking points of much of the foundational black American grassroots to be correct. Okay, so we're going over the receipts on this page, okay? So get your pencil, get your paper out, get your pen, notebook, whatever you choose to document this type of information on, get that out, family, and let's lock in and let's tap in. Now, today, family, we're going to be diving into deep receipts on indigenous foundational black American ancestry, okay? Now, one of the more popular talking points that you'll hear from a lot of detractors of foundational black Americans is that we have no indigenous ancestry. Okay, that's a figment of our imagination. The problem is we just don't want to be African. Okay, there's no such thing as foundational black Americans with indigenous ancestry. We are simply, okay, Africans who came over here during the transatlantic slave trade and made it to the United States of America.

[00:01:27]That's a popular talking point. But what if I told you, family, there are several federal documents coming from the United States government that proves otherwise?

[00:01:36]That proves otherwise. Today, we're going to go over two.

[00:01:40]One of those documents is the United States Congressional Bill, more specifically HR 4637.

[00:01:45]Also, we're going to deep dive on an extra bulletin census that was put out in 1890 on the five civilized tribes.

[00:01:52]So, family, we're going to do a little deep digging today. We're We're going to keep you too long, but I promise you we're going to point you in the right direction. We're going to give you the knowledge, wisdom, and information you need to grow your knowledge, wisdom, and information about your lineage that is foundational black Americans.

[00:02:08]With that being said, let's dive into it.

[00:02:11]All right, so family, as you can see on the screen, we have our first document up on the screen. Now, this is the HR 4637.

[00:02:18]Uh it was presented to the 117th Congress during the first section, and it was presented on July 22nd, 2021. I'm giving you exact receipts, family. Let me say that again. This is the HR 4637.

[00:02:30]It was presented into the 117th Congress during the first section of July 22nd, 2021, and it was introduced by Representative Danny K. Davis of Illinois in the US House of Representatives. Okay, and now the purpose of this bill was to serve the United States government relations with the Creek Nation of Oklahoma into such time as the Creek Nation of Oklahoma restored full tribal citizenship to Creek freedmen disenfranchised in October 6, 1979.

[00:03:01]So, this was meant to be an informational piece. This was meant to turn over their findings, okay, and their discoveries during this investigation of the relationship between the Creek Nation and the Creek freedmen.

[00:03:13]Now, what's interesting, family, we're going to scroll down to point number one or finding number one. We're right here, family. Finding number one.

[00:03:23]The first finding, which proves that foundational black Americans have always been correct to say that we have indigenous ancestry, and not only that, that our people in this land predate the arrival of Columbus is in the very first findings. It says, "Historically, the Muscogee, aka the Creek Nation, were comprised of a confederacy of separate towns, tribes, and people. Each town was a complete governmental unit in and of itself.

[00:03:58]Among those people were the Yamasee or the Jamasee, who were reported to have immigrated from Africa prior to the European discovery of America. Let me read it one more time. Let me read that last sentence one more time. Among those people were the Yamasee or Jamasee, who were reported to have immigrated from Africa prior to the European discovery of America.

[00:04:27]Uh-oh. Now, on this channel, get familiar with the name Yamasee. We're going to be touching on the Yamasee quite a bit, okay? One of the hidden indigenous tribes of the America. The Yamasees were the indigenous black people who were already in this land, and unfortunately got erased over time through paper genocide. Also, reclassification under the enslaving system that was set up in the United States of America.

[00:04:51]But family, I can already hear the naysayers. The naysayers, they're listening to this video right now.

[00:04:56]They're saying, "Chase, the federal government said, okay, that these people were reported to have immigrated from Africa."

[00:05:05]Oh, they were reported to have immigrated from Africa, but it also says prior to the European discovery of America. Let's not leave out that line. And why is that important? Let's jump over, family.

[00:05:17]Let's jump over to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. We're going to tap into the heavy receipts now.

[00:05:23]Okay, family. Here we are on the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, okay? And we're under the title or we're looking up the word indigenous. Okay, what is the definition of indigenous? Now, the first definition, the reason why we're not going to use that, because this is as it pertains to plants. We want as it pertains to indigenous people. And it says indigenous, of relating to or descendant from the earliest known inhabitants of a place, and especially of a place that was colonized. They put an emphasis on colonize or colonization, okay? So, when we look at the historical record as given to us by that HR 4637 bill that was presented to Congress, it explicitly states that the Yamasee were an active self-governing part of the Muscogee Creek Nation Confederacy, completely prior to European discovery of America. Because the definition specifies being of or relating to the earliest inhabitants of a colonized place, the Yamasee fit perfectly into the definition of what indigenous was, okay? Or indigenous is. They were politically and socially woven right into the undisputed sovereign native nation long before any European powers arrived to change the rules. Since they governed their own towns within the native network before colonization, their identity is completely inseparable from the original baseline society of this land, okay? If you're going to say they were part of the Creek Nation, and the Creek Nation or the Creek people are indigenous people, then that would make the Yamasee indigenous as well. So, if migrating to a continent before European contact is universally the benchmark for being considered native, then you cannot logically use migration to exclude the Yamasee while using it to validate everyone else.

[00:07:12]With that being said, family, I want y'all to understand that this HR 4637 is one of many federal documents that recognize the Yamasee and their president presence in this land from ancient time. Okay, let's go deeper.

[00:07:25]Let's go to our second federal document that we're pointing out today.

[00:07:29]Now, family, what I have on the screen, as you can see, is the extra census bulletin of the five civilized tribes in Indian Territory, the Cherokee, the Chickasaw, the Choctaw, the Creek, and the Seminole Nations, okay? This is from the Department of Interior Census Office. The report was compiled as a specialized supplemental to the 11th Census of the United States taken in 1890. So, this dates back to 1890 and it was authored and overseen by a man by the name of Robert P. Porter, who was the Superintendent of the Census, and Carroll D. Wright, who was the Commissioner of Labor in charge, okay?

[00:08:02]And it was officially published in 1894 and it was published by the United States Printing Office in Washington, D.C. Okay, so this is as official as official gets, family. Now, with that being said, family, let's scroll down to page 27. Let's scroll down to page 27.

[00:08:22]Boom, right here under a section entitled Creeks in South Carolina.

[00:08:27]Let's zoom in a little bit.

[00:08:30]Again, entitled Creeks in South Carolina.

[00:08:34]It says the Yamasee or Gullah Yamasee were one of the small number of isolated tribes of dark complexion, found widely scattered amongst the inhabitants of North and South America, supposed to have been immigrants from Africa prior to the European discovery of America. If this be so, it explains why de Leon persisted in slave hunting about Beaufort in 1520, okay? These Negroes being valuable as laborers while the Indians were worthless. It were strange, too, if Negroes first occupied this section where they now predominate.

[00:09:14]Okay, so again, family, this is from Robert Porter, okay, in the 1890 Census.

[00:09:19]They documented this information, okay?

[00:09:22]They were always knowing about indigenous black people who were in this land, specifically known as the Yamasee or Gullah Yamasee, okay, as they called them in this document.

[00:09:34]Also, what's interesting to point out, family, and I hope y'all didn't miss it.

[00:09:37]It said this might have been the reason why early colonists or explorers like de Leon uh were persistent in slave hunting in certain parts of the America and Beaufort. Remember, they put the notion out there that the only enslaved people were continental Africans who came during the transatlantic slave trade.

[00:09:58]But, I keep telling you in the United States of America, okay, a lot of the early indigenous people were the vast majority of the enslaved population in the United States, okay? And a lot of these indigenous people were black-skinned people who unfortunately fell victims to paper genocide due to their skin color, due to their skin complexion.

[00:10:23]Remember families, I always point out only 3 to 4% of the Africans who came during the transatlantic slave trade made it to the United States of America.

[00:10:32]So, even back then in the 1890s, Europeans were like fascinated and they would point out that, "Hey, man, they were in a lot of these older accounts talking about doing a lot of slave hunting in the 15, 16, 1700s in the Americas."

[00:10:47]So, was it that this slave population just simply grew from procreation or from unfortunately breeding farms?

[00:10:57]Or was it that a lot of these indigenous people who already here, who we would call black people, were reclassified?

[00:11:05]Okay, and put on plantations and stripped of their native identity.

[00:11:10]But, let's go back to HR 4637, okay? The bill that was presented to the 117th Congress because I want to point out something else in there because it adds to the proof of what Foundation of Black Americans have been saying this whole time, especially when it comes to blood quantum. A lot of Pan-Africanists, a lot of tethers, a lot of detractors of Foundation of Black Americans will always say that hey the black people who were in these tribes, they weren't of native or indigenous ancestry, they were actually slaves of these tribes, okay? They were simply freedmen.

[00:11:47]And let's be clear, I'm not here to say that some of the five civilized tribes did not enslave black people.

[00:11:55]Okay? But what I am here to say is that all those black people who were part of the tribe were not simply there because they were once enslaved by the tribes.

[00:12:05]Some of them have indigenous ancestry as we just pointed out, the Yamasee who later became part of the Creek Nation.

[00:12:11]That ancestry traces back to ancient America long before enslavement was a part of this American system.

[00:12:18]But let's go to that bill HR 4637 and let's read what the federal government said and what they presented to Congress as one of their findings. These are their findings, meaning they got together, they gathered up all the evidence, they did their research, and this is what they're presenting, okay?

[00:12:38]to Congress.

[00:12:40]Okay, so as you can see family, we're on page 11 of that bill. Now, let's scroll down to finding 33.

[00:12:47]Finding 33 and let's read finding 33 through 37.

[00:12:51]It says, "The Dawes Commission, motivated by racism, used race in Creek Nation citizens' physical appearance to segregate Creeks of African descent or Creek freedmen. The true Creeks in the Dawes Commission's estimation were listed on the Creek rolls, also known as the blood roll."

[00:13:16]Scrolling down, "The Creek freedmen, individuals of African descent, regardless of whether they or their ancestors who previously enslaved by the Creek Nation were listed on the Creek Nation's Freedman Roll.

[00:13:32]Finding 34, the Dawes Commission employed the hypo descent rule by which any individual with one drop of black blood was to be considered black and therefore belong on the Creek Nation Freedman Roll. I want you to understand this again. Let's read finding 34. This was presented okay, to the United States Congress in 2021. That's 5 years ago.

[00:13:58]The Dawes Commission employed the hypo descent rule by which any individual with one drop of black blood was to be considered black and therefore belong on the Creek Nation Freedman Roll.

[00:14:12]Finding 35, the Dawes Commission therefore enrolled many Creeks of African descent on the Creek Freedman Roll regardless of whether they or their ancestors were ever enslaved in the Creek Nation or of how much Creek blood they actually possessed. So, regardless of their ancestors were enslaved or not or no matter how much actual Creek blood they had, they would list them as Freedman because they had the one drop rule.

[00:14:42]Anybody who looked even a smidge of black, you could be very fair-skinned but have somewhat of a curly, kinky, or frizzy hair, negro, Freedman.

[00:14:53]All right? It don't matter if your ancestors were enslaved. It don't matter how much Creek blood you actually had.

[00:14:59]And the term Creek blood is very problematic as well, family. We'll get to that after we finish reading this.

[00:15:06]Finding 36, the Dawes Commission separated families by enrolling full siblings with different blood degrees and enrolling some family members on the Creek Nation's blood roll and the other on the Creek Freedman Roll.

[00:15:22]The blood degree or blood quantum was originally to be used only for land allotment purposes. Did y'all catch that family? Finding 36 said that they would even separate families.

[00:15:35]And again, by what they said earlier, they were separating based on appearances.

[00:15:41]So, if you had two siblings who looked different, one was fairer skin, one was maybe browner skin or darker skin, one could go on the Freedman roll and the other one went on the Creek blood roll of being an actual native.

[00:15:59]It don't matter if they had the same parents or the same family members or not.

[00:16:04]They were separated based off appearance.

[00:16:08]In conclusion, under finding 37, therefore, once the Dawes rolls closed on March 4th, 1907, Creek citizens enrolled on the Freedman roll and their descendants in perpetuity would always carry the ugly badge of slavery, regardless of whether they or their ancestors were ever enslaved and forever legally be known as Creek freedmen.

[00:16:38]There it is, family. So, regardless uh if they were enslaved by the Creeks or not or if they had actual indigenous ancestry, based off their physical appearance, they would automatically be labeled a freedman and be linked to the ugly badge of slavery.

[00:16:56]And be told they're not really indigenous and they don't really have Creek blood.

[00:17:02]But, understand this. Look look let's let's go back real quick to the word Creek. And in closing, family, let me say this because you'll have a lot of detractors again who will say things like, "Oh, y'all don't have real Native American blood or ancestry.

[00:17:19]As it pertains to the Creeks, for example, cuz we're just talking about the Creeks and we've been talking about the Creeks and the Yamasee.

[00:17:26]There is no such thing as pure Creek blood.

[00:17:31]Understand the term or the Creek nation, they get their name from European colonists. But he saw a whole bunch of Native Americans down there by the creek, so he's like, "All of y'all are Creek Indians."

[00:17:42]All of y'all are Creek Indians.

[00:17:44]Same thing with the term Seminole and the Seminole nation. Seminole is not an indigenous word.

[00:17:51]Okay? That's a Spanish corruption of the word cimarrón, that simply means runaway. So anybody who ran away or who was runaways, that's particularly down south, southern parts of Georgia, Florida, you were considered Seminoles.

[00:18:05]It was an amalgamation of many different groups of people. You had indigenous people of all different phenotypes and appearances. You had some of the remainders of the Yamasees who were pushed down south, okay, after the 1715 Yamasee War. They were pushed down south. You had the Yuchi down there. You had some of the tribes of the persuasion down there.

[00:18:27]Creeks, etc. And you had runaway African slaves down there who were running south to places like Florida who knew they could be free under Florida or Spanish rule.

[00:18:39]All these people amalgamated together to be called what we call Seminoles.

[00:18:44]Okay? It's a Spanish corruption of the word cimarrón that means runaway. There is no such thing as pure native Seminole blood.

[00:18:55]All of these tribes are confederacies.

[00:18:57]They're an amalgamation of many different tribes and many different people with many different phenotypes.

[00:19:02]Because as proven by these two federal documents, you had black-skinned people who many people in 2026 racial terms speaking would be of a different race who were over here and who were indigenous people. It's your brother Chase man family. Comment in the comment section below. Tell me what you think.

[00:19:21]Did you like this video? We dealing with receipts on this page primary sources. I got so many more documents that I want to run through with the family. Please your homework for this is to make sure you save these documents. I gave you the receipts on them. Download them onto your computer. Download them on a jump drive, okay? Have this information so you can go back and pull from it. Okay?

[00:19:43]You can go back and give receipts off of it. When people try to challenge your talking points about having indigenous ancestry, I want you to pull this up.

[00:19:51]I'm interested to see what some of the foundational Black Americans detractors they say about these documents cuz they always tell us we don't have no evidence of this. We're just making stuff up.

[00:20:02]So add this to your receipt files. Make sure you download it, save it, put it on a jump drive because I want you to have this forever.

[00:20:10]All right. It's your brother Chase man.

[00:20:12]Make sure you like the video, subscribe to the channel, hype it up. Also if you want more information on indigenous black people in the ancient America, make sure you go get my book 19 white men who admitted they were indigenous black people in America volume one. You can go also get get volume two as well and also get 13 black scholars for my people at home who say, "Hey man, I don't trust what white people say."

[00:20:32]Don't worry about that. I got 13 black scholars who said the same thing. So make sure you go check that out family and until next time you know what it is.

[00:20:40]Hope y'all enjoy the new channel man.

[00:20:42]Peace and black power. Foundational black Americans, you are phenomenal phenomenal people. Don't you ever forget that.