After a long 9 years Big Chief Keitoe Jones of the 9th Ward Seminoles Indian Tribe returned to the streets to showcase his new 2024 Mardi Gras Indian Suit on Mardi Gras day !
Look how beautiful, why would you want to take people's cultural heritage their ancestral practices strip them of everything and tell them that they belong somewhere they know nothing about we didn't grow up being told we came from Africa we grew up being told that we were indigenous to this land you want to call us Indians okay but we're not African nothing this is so spiritual mother Earth is crying out for her babies it's time to wake up. Get how beautiful the chief look would all his regalia and all the time and work it took to make these costumes if that's what you want to call them anybody can't make this it takes a special kind of person to sew these costumes, look how beautiful those colors look on his copper colored complexion
Keto has been the most 15:32 innovative and a influential person in the lower 9th ward for keeping the Indian culture alive, Many Thanks for your Zeal Sir,Matthew
I’m neither black nor Indian but I think that we should remember that the native Americans did shelter them just as white people who were on the Underground Railroad helped them and sometimes to the great peril of everyone. Why can’t we let them celebrate with their obvious heritage. This makes them proud not ashamed. We should be celebrating with them not oppressing them. Let people be and celebrate their obvious pride in their culture. Just learn to love and respect everyone for their wonderful variety and god love and bless everyone. Keep this wonderful expression of love and pride going.
Ayeeee, thank yall for posting this! Yall brought me back to the Kalabari Islands of Nigeria. It was so good watching yall! We dress up and march with the band with our dearly departed for 7 days straight during funerals. I've only seen this done during Mardi Gras, and this blessed my soul watching yall. Especially seeing yall represent the Black Seminoles. Ayeeeeeee. My Black American folks was born on Seminole reservations. Ahhhh Man, yall kept the culture alive! Thank you! Shout out to the Kalabari, Shoutout to the Black Muscogee, and shoutout to yall in Louisiana! Blessing! I'm with yall in spirit!
Are they native Americans there's or African American mix with native American because as African Americans we need to know are true history about native Americans and African Americans now as African Americans I know we have are identity problems but native Americans know who they are later they didn't want to admit they was black just to not get mixed up with us there was a lot of native Americans that sided with the British and enslaved African Americans and some when slavery end did let us go until the native American was force to do so they gave us land then later took it so I'm just saying as African Americans we need to understand if we are mixed with native American maybe it's not something we should be celebrating we did not know who were but they knew who was every nation tribe and peoples bloodline knew who we was and took part in are demise profited from it mostly even if only a little because we didn't profit from it I'm not say all native Americans was in in slaving us but enough was
Aboriginal!!! Anybody can be Native if you were born on the soil. But everyone can't be Aboriginal! Meaning our origin traces back to being already on the soil before any white man or foreign step foot. my ancestors have always been here since the beginning.
