The Movement
Every renaming left a paper trail. Every paper trail leads back to a people. Find your people, then move as a unit.
Roots
These guides are the map. The receipts are the road. Walk it for your ancestors. They need you.
Start your tree
Your family on the AtlasAdd your people and watch the timeline play through your tree, with what happened around them, where it happened. My WW9Your saved family roots and your saves from the Library and the Atlas, in one place. Ask MelaniBring a name, a county or a census line. She answers from the Library’s receipts and tells you where to dig next.
Who we are
Black American Indians: the record, the renaming, and how to trace your ownHow the first peoples of this land were renamed on paper, in their own words, and a step-by-step guide. Foundational Black Americans: lineage, land and legacyThe lineage that was here before the United States had a name. Before they were called SeminoleFlorida’s melanated first nations, the maroons and Fort Mose.
How they renamed us
Renamed: mulatto, colored, negro and the census boxHow the census box renamed the same families decade after decade, and how to read it. The Freedmen Rolls: Dawes cards and the Five TribesHow the line between “by blood” and “Freedmen” was drawn, and how to find your people on the cards.
Land and towns
Trace your own
Move as a unit
Support each other’s work. Build with us, share the receipts, and wear the record.
The Niji Field GuideFree: how to politicize ourselves and command our movement. FBALineage, not a label: what the name means and how to trace your own line. Become a creatorDesigners: we print and sell your approved designs, and you earn a cut of every sale. Made by the communityThe pieces our people designed. WW9 NewsThe Movement’s researchers and creators, by topic. WW9 SearchSearch made for us: many languages at once, across the web, archives and scholarship. YNDIANSThe team. WW9 LabsWhat we’re building next.
Truth is truth. Receipts are for proof.