JUST SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
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i played this song just about every friday night during my underground set from the day i got the promo to my last day on the air in 2005...
told Ras personally that that song will be in rotation til they kick me off the air...
...damn... i miss those days...
R.I.P E.C. LaRock
Its a good ass song!! Probably too much for sum folks to swallow..
A BLACK INDIAN MARCH FOR PEACE, 1861-1862
by WILLIAM LOREN KATZ on APRIL 18, 2012
As the country celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, one major event has passed unnoticed, though it stands as a massive demonstration of people power harnessed in the cause of peace and justice. It involved thousands of men, women and children of color in a painful and vast exodus to flee the Indian Territory which had fallen into Confederate military control.
It began when Creek leaders signed a treaty with the Confederacy that would commit Native Americans to the bloody US conflict. A furious Opothle Yahola, a wealthy Creek, gathered an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 people on his huge ranch in the Indian Territory in late 1861. They agreed they must avoid the impending carnage even if it meant uprooting their families and seeking freedom in a northern state.
First they hoped the new President would to promise help. Apothle Yahola wrote to Lincoln asking for federal protection saying “now the wolf has come. Men who are strangers tread our soil. Our children are frightened & mothers cannot sleep for fear.” Getting this letter to the Union forces proved almost impossible. Getting Union help in an Indian Territory surrounded by Confederate forces was impossible.
Apothle Yahola had more luck when he sent messages into slave communities saying that people who joined him would be considered “free.” Enslaved families and others flocked to his banner—half of the Seminole Nation, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creeks, Choctaw, Kickapoo, Shawnee, Delaware and Commanche.
Anticipating a Confederate attack, on November 5, 1861, Opothle Yahola led his “Peace Party” northwest to avoid Douglas Cooper, US Indian agent, who now served as commander of Indian Confederate troops. In two weeks, as the Peace forces circled around recruiting followers, a Confederate army of Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, and white Texas cavalry attacked them at Round Mountain but were driven off. In a second battle, at Chusto Talasah (Caving Banks), on December 19, Peace forces again repulsed another Confederate attack. Then they slipped across the Arkansas River into Cherokee Territory continuing to recruit families.
But on December 26, at Chustenahlah (High Shoals) northeast of present-day Tulsa, a third battle that included desperate hand to hand fighting saw superior Confederate forces that included Cherokees
overwhelm the Peace Party.
The defeated families fled, abandoning wagons, bedding, and clothing. They lost about 900 cattle, 250 ponies, and 190 sheep and took off on foot through a blizzard and one of the worst winters on record toward Union lines in Kansas. Desperate men tried to cover the retreat of their women and children with their few weapons. Said one Seminole leader, “At that battle we lost everything we possessed, everything to take care of our women and children with, and all that we had. . . . We left them in cold blood by the wayside.”
After a disorderly march, thousands of survivors reached Kansas in January 1862. But along the way many had died and had to be left on the frozen ground to be devoured by wolves.
In Kansas Opothle Yahola and his families had to camp without blankets on still frozen ground. He died in a year, knowing he had led a bold exodus for freedom through the winter snows to safety, and after the Emancipation Proclamation changed the war’s direction.
In April, as the first buds of spring came through the soil, some 7,600 in his camp were receiving US Army supplies and the young men of color talked of enlisting for the Union.
For some men peace no longer seemed the goal. Surviving men of the Peace party, particularly people of African descent, volunteered to form one of first official regiments of soldiers of color in the Civil War. Because most Indians did not speak English, the bilingual African Americans served as interpreters and provided a cultural bridge between the white officers and the Indian soldiers.
General Jim Lane, a flamboyant Kansas senator, led these men into battle and they established a unique record. Fighting their way to Kansas, they had participated in the first three battles in the Indian Territory, and their African American and Black Indian men were the first to fight the Confederacy. With the official organization and mustering of the First Indian Regiment in May 1862, the African American members became the first officially mustered into the Union Army.
During forays into the Indian Territory in the summer of 1862 they became the first African Americans to take part in official Union combat operations. At the Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas, on December 7, 1862, they were the first African Americans to participate in a major Civil War battle—and 30 of their members defeated 130 mounted Confederate guerrillas.
These brave soldiers went on to fight on the battlefields of Missouri, Arkansas and Indian Territory, and to free enslaved people.
Five years earlier Senator Jim Lane said people of African descent were a connecting link between the orangutan and the human. As General, Lane changed his tune. He proudly announced, “they are the finest specimens of mankind I have ever gazed upon.”
by WILLIAM LOREN KATZ on APRIL 18, 2012
As the country celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, one major event has passed unnoticed, though it stands as a massive demonstration of people power harnessed in the cause of peace and justice. It involved thousands of men, women and children of color in a painful and vast exodus to flee the Indian Territory which had fallen into Confederate military control.
It began when Creek leaders signed a treaty with the Confederacy that would commit Native Americans to the bloody US conflict. A furious Opothle Yahola, a wealthy Creek, gathered an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 people on his huge ranch in the Indian Territory in late 1861. They agreed they must avoid the impending carnage even if it meant uprooting their families and seeking freedom in a northern state.
First they hoped the new President would to promise help. Apothle Yahola wrote to Lincoln asking for federal protection saying “now the wolf has come. Men who are strangers tread our soil. Our children are frightened & mothers cannot sleep for fear.” Getting this letter to the Union forces proved almost impossible. Getting Union help in an Indian Territory surrounded by Confederate forces was impossible.
Apothle Yahola had more luck when he sent messages into slave communities saying that people who joined him would be considered “free.” Enslaved families and others flocked to his banner—half of the Seminole Nation, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creeks, Choctaw, Kickapoo, Shawnee, Delaware and Commanche.
Anticipating a Confederate attack, on November 5, 1861, Opothle Yahola led his “Peace Party” northwest to avoid Douglas Cooper, US Indian agent, who now served as commander of Indian Confederate troops. In two weeks, as the Peace forces circled around recruiting followers, a Confederate army of Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, and white Texas cavalry attacked them at Round Mountain but were driven off. In a second battle, at Chusto Talasah (Caving Banks), on December 19, Peace forces again repulsed another Confederate attack. Then they slipped across the Arkansas River into Cherokee Territory continuing to recruit families.
But on December 26, at Chustenahlah (High Shoals) northeast of present-day Tulsa, a third battle that included desperate hand to hand fighting saw superior Confederate forces that included Cherokees
overwhelm the Peace Party.
The defeated families fled, abandoning wagons, bedding, and clothing. They lost about 900 cattle, 250 ponies, and 190 sheep and took off on foot through a blizzard and one of the worst winters on record toward Union lines in Kansas. Desperate men tried to cover the retreat of their women and children with their few weapons. Said one Seminole leader, “At that battle we lost everything we possessed, everything to take care of our women and children with, and all that we had. . . . We left them in cold blood by the wayside.”
After a disorderly march, thousands of survivors reached Kansas in January 1862. But along the way many had died and had to be left on the frozen ground to be devoured by wolves.
In Kansas Opothle Yahola and his families had to camp without blankets on still frozen ground. He died in a year, knowing he had led a bold exodus for freedom through the winter snows to safety, and after the Emancipation Proclamation changed the war’s direction.
In April, as the first buds of spring came through the soil, some 7,600 in his camp were receiving US Army supplies and the young men of color talked of enlisting for the Union.
For some men peace no longer seemed the goal. Surviving men of the Peace party, particularly people of African descent, volunteered to form one of first official regiments of soldiers of color in the Civil War. Because most Indians did not speak English, the bilingual African Americans served as interpreters and provided a cultural bridge between the white officers and the Indian soldiers.
General Jim Lane, a flamboyant Kansas senator, led these men into battle and they established a unique record. Fighting their way to Kansas, they had participated in the first three battles in the Indian Territory, and their African American and Black Indian men were the first to fight the Confederacy. With the official organization and mustering of the First Indian Regiment in May 1862, the African American members became the first officially mustered into the Union Army.
During forays into the Indian Territory in the summer of 1862 they became the first African Americans to take part in official Union combat operations. At the Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas, on December 7, 1862, they were the first African Americans to participate in a major Civil War battle—and 30 of their members defeated 130 mounted Confederate guerrillas.
These brave soldiers went on to fight on the battlefields of Missouri, Arkansas and Indian Territory, and to free enslaved people.
Five years earlier Senator Jim Lane said people of African descent were a connecting link between the orangutan and the human. As General, Lane changed his tune. He proudly announced, “they are the finest specimens of mankind I have ever gazed upon.”
Timeline of Wars Indian Wars Timeline
1637 The Pequot War - Native Indians of Connecticut included the Narragansetts, Mohegans, Wampanoags, Nipmucks, Pocumtucks, Abenakis and Pequots. The Pequots were defeated by the colonists, who were led by John Underhill and John Mason, and the Narragansetts and Mohegans who were their allies
1640 1640 - 1701 - The Beaver Wars, also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars
1655 1655 - The Peach Tree War, also known as the Peach War, was a large scale attack by the Susquehannock Nation and allied Native Americans on several New Netherland settlements centered on New Amsterdam
1675 1675 - 1677 King Philip's War so named after Metacomet of the Wampanoag tribe, who was called Philip by the English. The war was bloody and bitterly fought by the colonists against the Wampanoags, Narragansetts, Nipmucks, Pocumtucks, and Abenakis. During King Philip's War, up to one third of America's white population was wiped out. This war proved to be the final struggle by the Native Americans of Connecticut.
1711 1711-1713: The Tuscarora War between the Tuscarora Native Americans and European settlers. The Tuscarora are defeated
1715 The Yamasee War - An Indian confederation led by the Yamasee came close to exterminating the white settlements in their area
1722 Iroquois surrender claims to land south of the Ohio River in addition to counties in the eastern panhandle
1756 1756 - 1763: The Seven Years War (French and Indian War) due to disputes over land is won by Great Britain. France gives England all French territory east of the Mississippi River, except New Orleans. The Spanish give up east and west Florida to the English in return for Cuba.
1763 February 10: Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War (1754-1763). Canada east of the Mississippi River added to the British empire.
1764 Pontiac's Rebellion. The British treated the former Indian allies of the French like conquered peoples, which prompted the Ottawa Chief Pontiac (1720-1769) to lead a rebellion of a number of tribes against the British
1773 December 16: The Boston Tea Party - Massachusetts patriots dressed as Mohawk Indians protest against the British Tea Act by dumping crates of tea into Boston Harbor.
For additional facts and information about refer to Colonial America
1775 1775 - 1783 - The American Revolution creates the United States of America. The Revolution was due to the British burden of taxes and total power to legislate any laws governing the American colonies. George Washington led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War (American War of Independence). Timeline of Wars
1776 Chickamauga Wars (1776–1794) Cherokee involvement in the American Revolutionary War and continuing through late 1794
1778 July 10, 1778 - France declares war against Britain and makes an alliance with the American revolutionary forces
1783 September 3, 1783 - The Treaty of Paris is signed by the victorious United States and the defeated Great Britain
1785 Northwest Indian War (1785–1795)
1794 Nickajack Expedition (1794)
1805 Barbary Wars
1806 Sabine Expedition (1806)
1811 Tecumseh's War (1811–1813)
1811 Creek War (1813–1814)
1813 Peoria War (1813)
1811 Battle of Tippecanoe
1812 War of 1812 begins.
1812 1812 - 1815 - The War of 1812 between U.S. and Great Britain, ended in a stalemate but confirmed America's Independence
1817 First Seminole War (1817–1818)
1827 Winnebago War (1827)
1831 Nat Turner's revolt
1832 Black Hawk War
Seminole War begins
Department of Indian Affairs established
1832 Black Hawk War (1832)
1835 Creek Alabama Uprising (1835–1837)
1836 Florida–Georgia Border War (1836)
1835 Second Seminole War (1835–1842)
1836 Missouri–Iowa Border War (1836)
1837 Osage Indian War (1837)
1835 Texas War for Independence begins
1846 Mexican-American War begins and ends in 1848
1861 1861 - 1865: The American Civil War. outbreak of the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln, a known opponent of slavery, was elected president and in 1861 the South Secedes. The initial Secession of South Carolina was followed by the secession of Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. These eleven states eventually formed the Confederate States of America. The bombardment of Fort Sumter was the opening engagement of the American Civil War.
1865 The surrender of Robert E. Lee on April 9 1865 signalled the end of the Confederacy
1874 Red River Wars
1877 Nez Perce War
1637 The Pequot War - Native Indians of Connecticut included the Narragansetts, Mohegans, Wampanoags, Nipmucks, Pocumtucks, Abenakis and Pequots. The Pequots were defeated by the colonists, who were led by John Underhill and John Mason, and the Narragansetts and Mohegans who were their allies
1640 1640 - 1701 - The Beaver Wars, also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars
1655 1655 - The Peach Tree War, also known as the Peach War, was a large scale attack by the Susquehannock Nation and allied Native Americans on several New Netherland settlements centered on New Amsterdam
1675 1675 - 1677 King Philip's War so named after Metacomet of the Wampanoag tribe, who was called Philip by the English. The war was bloody and bitterly fought by the colonists against the Wampanoags, Narragansetts, Nipmucks, Pocumtucks, and Abenakis. During King Philip's War, up to one third of America's white population was wiped out. This war proved to be the final struggle by the Native Americans of Connecticut.
1711 1711-1713: The Tuscarora War between the Tuscarora Native Americans and European settlers. The Tuscarora are defeated
1715 The Yamasee War - An Indian confederation led by the Yamasee came close to exterminating the white settlements in their area
1722 Iroquois surrender claims to land south of the Ohio River in addition to counties in the eastern panhandle
1756 1756 - 1763: The Seven Years War (French and Indian War) due to disputes over land is won by Great Britain. France gives England all French territory east of the Mississippi River, except New Orleans. The Spanish give up east and west Florida to the English in return for Cuba.
1763 February 10: Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War (1754-1763). Canada east of the Mississippi River added to the British empire.
1764 Pontiac's Rebellion. The British treated the former Indian allies of the French like conquered peoples, which prompted the Ottawa Chief Pontiac (1720-1769) to lead a rebellion of a number of tribes against the British
1773 December 16: The Boston Tea Party - Massachusetts patriots dressed as Mohawk Indians protest against the British Tea Act by dumping crates of tea into Boston Harbor.
For additional facts and information about refer to Colonial America
1775 1775 - 1783 - The American Revolution creates the United States of America. The Revolution was due to the British burden of taxes and total power to legislate any laws governing the American colonies. George Washington led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War (American War of Independence). Timeline of Wars
1776 Chickamauga Wars (1776–1794) Cherokee involvement in the American Revolutionary War and continuing through late 1794
1778 July 10, 1778 - France declares war against Britain and makes an alliance with the American revolutionary forces
1783 September 3, 1783 - The Treaty of Paris is signed by the victorious United States and the defeated Great Britain
1785 Northwest Indian War (1785–1795)
1794 Nickajack Expedition (1794)
1805 Barbary Wars
1806 Sabine Expedition (1806)
1811 Tecumseh's War (1811–1813)
1811 Creek War (1813–1814)
1813 Peoria War (1813)
1811 Battle of Tippecanoe
1812 War of 1812 begins.
1812 1812 - 1815 - The War of 1812 between U.S. and Great Britain, ended in a stalemate but confirmed America's Independence
1817 First Seminole War (1817–1818)
1827 Winnebago War (1827)
1831 Nat Turner's revolt
1832 Black Hawk War
Seminole War begins
Department of Indian Affairs established
1832 Black Hawk War (1832)
1835 Creek Alabama Uprising (1835–1837)
1836 Florida–Georgia Border War (1836)
1835 Second Seminole War (1835–1842)
1836 Missouri–Iowa Border War (1836)
1837 Osage Indian War (1837)
1835 Texas War for Independence begins
1846 Mexican-American War begins and ends in 1848
1861 1861 - 1865: The American Civil War. outbreak of the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln, a known opponent of slavery, was elected president and in 1861 the South Secedes. The initial Secession of South Carolina was followed by the secession of Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. These eleven states eventually formed the Confederate States of America. The bombardment of Fort Sumter was the opening engagement of the American Civil War.
1865 The surrender of Robert E. Lee on April 9 1865 signalled the end of the Confederacy
1874 Red River Wars
1877 Nez Perce War
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