North American ancestors, trail blazers, unsung heroes & heroines, cultures

I Love Ancestry activism, the ancestors, marginalized people and Indigenous cultures from around the world

TRENDING ANCESTORS OF NORTH AMERICA

AFRO NATIVE AMERICAN

James Beckwourth, A Mountain Man to Know

“James P. Beckwourth” Apr. 6, 1798 – Oct. 29, 1866 by William Loren Katz James “Jim” Beckwourth emerges from the fur tra...

Bill Pickett

AFRO NATIVE AMERICAN

Bill Pickett, Inventor of Bulldogging, Legendary C...

Bill Pickett, the inventor of bulldogging, was a legendary cowboy of African and Cherokee heritage. Honoring the irrevocable connections to our ancest...

Margaret George Brown

NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN

Margaret George Brown, Catawba Elder (1837 –...

Margaret George Brown, a Catawba Elder was one of the last person in South Carolina to raise her children to speak the Catawba language. (July 4, 1837...

HOW WE IMPACT THE COMMUNITY

Our most powerful weapon is our truth. And at 'I Love Ancestry', people are able to connect and find their truth. And with their truth they are able to find their voice and be able to become the person that Creator always wanted them to be. This is a site of growth and change.

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Wayne William Snellgrove

'I Love Ancestry' offers humanity an opportunity to examine and preserve our cultural history that has been hidden and ignored. As we glide through evolving and expanding global consciousness, the 'I Love Ancestry' campaign demands that the worlds indigenous history be protected and sustained. Employing their intuitive, cutting edge social media technical savvy and their personal passion for historical and cultural accuracy, the 'I Love Ancestry' team has secured our identity in time. Their personal campaign to raise awareness about their own diverse cultural heritage has created a movement that will not only empower the indigenous world but will also forever secure its history.

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Rose Davis

'I Love Ancestry' is a powerful platform that empowers all of us to share our stories and learn from each other, while emphasizing the interconnectedness of the Native American and African American experiences. I commend you for your time and commitment to Native American and African American bloodlines and the education you provide on our past! I am honored to have met a diverse group of individuals through ‘I Love Ancestry’ and to honestly say that I have made a few lifelong connections. We all stand to benefit from the invaluable social and educational resources available through this community. When I think of ‘I Love Ancestry’ I am reminded of a quote by the late Wilma Mankiller, “I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.” Ah-ho for educating us to be proud of our past as we move into the future.

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Georgette Palmer Smith

The 'I Love Ancestry' Movement is a wonderful and much used resource. Connecting us culturally letting us know about others who share our culture and the historical posts are essential to our knowledge of our hidden history. AMERICA denies the existence of Native people who mixed freely with slaves both slaves of African descent and Native slaves of mixed tribes who were thrown into the vortex of human trafficking and bondage. I can't tell you how much I look forward to I Love Ancestry posts on FB. I use both the information and inspiration . Thank you for Existing for Us.

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Karen Aiki Kelley

I Love Ancestry is an insight into the lives of the first people of Turtle Island. It speaks of the (our) kinship to Earth Mother, and the individual responsibility to her. It also shows the many beautiful colors...of our people, and the struggles, that affect us...our tribes...our ways. Used properly...it can be a bridge, for non natives...to get a better understanding...of who we are...what we are...and why we are.

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Phoenix Holland

Being an indigenous woman it is my responsibility to provide our babies coming up with knowledge and awareness of past, present and future understandings pertaining to who they are and which direction they are going in. Living in 2015, yet being raised in the 70's, 80's and 90's by elders within my nation who come from the old way, it has been difficult to discern to the young people truth and reality in their history. Through our mandated education systems what is and has been portrayed to their existence is completely irrelevant to their indigenous history. It is through the hard work, compassion and love of Adrien Heckstall that I have come to trust and allow this site to be an educational platform to enlighten our young people in some ancestral roots of this very sacred island we call North and South America.

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Pte San Win

This online community has been an integral part of helping people get connected to their roots, find their roots, helped others understand about our ways and stay connected to their heritage. Personally I love the stimulating interaction and intelligent conversations it provokes. Over the years I have seen many of our Native community honored and spotlighted for various reasons. Honoring people for their accomplishments and or just being who they are is very important to us as a people because it allows others to get it. There are Native people represented in every area of the work force and we are very proud of that. Not only are we proud of our Ancestry we are proud of the prospect of our future as well. This forum allows us to demonstrate our great diversity, explore cultural ways, preserve historical education, view ancient art and gain a better understanding of who we are as a people.

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Vaughnda Hilton

I Love Ancestry provides a needed reconnection with our culture which is still under constant attack by invaders that want us to disappear so they don't have to be held accountable for the ongoing crimes against humanity and the planet. Days when I feel flooded by the shallow destructions forced upon me by capitalism, i get tagged in a post by I Love Ancestry and suddenly i feel grounded, accepted & part of something beautiful that I can feel proud of. So much of the invader-culture treats us to feel like we're inadequate when we're not or force us to spend money on useless things to fit in while Native culture reminds us that we are whole & spiritual enough.

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Amo Kafi

The 'I Love Ancestry' forum is a jewel. It has found a way to bring together the histories and lives of people of color in a new and holistic way. It breaks down prejudices and stereotypes one link at a time. It expresses all that makes me proud and excited about what makes me who I am. THANK YOU!

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Kimberly Kelly

'I Love Ancestry' was one of the 1st groups who educated people on social media about black natives, and I appreciated that because there's so little information out there on it. I like that it's done features on my favorites like Russell Means and Leonard Peltier too.

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Ruth Hopkins

Many ancestry websites basically cover those whose history was written down. Not only does 'I Love Ancestry' take the oral history that was passed down for generations from the people who were fortunate enough to know their history, but 'I Love Ancestry' provides a living, breathing, up to date platform for our history as it happens.

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Dana Lone Hill

I'm a multi-tribal strong woman and proud of all my tribal connection. I was raised knowing two of my native traditions. The stories on 'I Love Ancestry' help me Learn, grow and understand about the people and traditions that I never learned about.

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Ronda Henry Seal

Education, awareness, diversity, compassion, and acceptance are the values and characteristics we all need to embrace in one another in a respectful and caring way. Thank you for all that you do on this page because this is one pathway to assisting us to understand who we are as human beings. Chi-Miigwech!!!

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Patricia Shepard

'I Love Ancestry' for me is an important "portal" of information zeroing in on Native content so that anyone - not just indigenous people, can connect with each other through our common interests. But it also plays an important part in helping racially mixed individuals who don't fit into that "check box", such as myself, to know that we are here to be the bridge that connects.... and not divides races. By remembering who we really are, we can and are doing this.

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Celia Xavier

'I Love Ancestry' is the perfect platform where we all have the chance to tell our stories...to learn, educate, debate, and strengthen our understandings of our past. We are making a mark and making a difference and reclaiming our identities and spreading the truth!! I bet at times some of our information blows many people away!! Including those who come from mixed heritage. So much is not recorded and paper genocide has many people lost or unsure and unknowing who they really are and what their ancestors have been through. We untangle so much...and there is a lot of healing in this. And the rest of those from all over Turtle Island have a chance to engage as well. It is here where blood memory takes a stand!! We have to be the ones to tell our own story!! So...yes! I LOVE my Ancestors and I know they be LOVIN "I Love Ancestry"!!

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Category: ANCESTORS OF NORTH AMERICA

Chief Little Crow

NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN

Chief Taoyateduta ‘Little Crow’ and the Dakota War of 1862

Chief Gall

NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN

Chief Gall, Hunkpapa Lakota Leader (c.1840 – 1894)

Vine Deloria Jr.

NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN

Vine Deloria, Jr. Lakota & Dakota Historian, Activist (1933 – 2005)

Margaret George Brown

NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN

Margaret George Brown, Catawba Elder (1837 – 1922)

AFRICAN AMERICAN

Dick Gregory, A Real Inspiration and True Warrior (1932 – 2017)

Bill Pickett

AFRO NATIVE AMERICAN

Bill Pickett, Inventor of Bulldogging, Legendary Cowboy (1870 – 1932)

Janet McCloud

NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN

Janet McCloud, Tulalip Leader, Fishing Rights Activist (1934 – 2003)

Sadie Alexander

AFRICAN AMERICAN

Sadie Alexander, Civil Rights Champion (1898 – 1989)

Long Lance

AFRO NATIVE AMERICAN

Buffalo Child Long Lance, A Brilliant Human Being (1890 – 1932)

Chief Red Cloud

NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN

Chief Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota Leader (c.1820 – 1909)

Dangerfield Newby

AFRICAN AMERICAN

Dangerfield Newby, The Real Django (1815 – 1859)

Marlon Brando

EUROPEAN AMERICAN

Legendary Marlon Brando, American Actor and Activist (1924 – 2004)

Edmonia Lewis

AFRO NATIVE AMERICAN

Edmonia Lewis, Haitian and Ojibwe Sculptor (1844 – 1907)

Sitting Bull

NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN

Tatanka Iyotake (Sitting Bull), Hunkpapa Lakota Holy Man

Josephine Baker

AFRICAN AMERICAN

Josephine Baker, Actress, Dancer, Singer, Spy and Activist

Diana Fletcher

AFRO NATIVE AMERICAN

Diana Fletcher, African Native American School Teacher

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