World War 9 (WW9) is the war over the record.
Not a war with guns. A war with paper.
Who gets to name a people.
Who gets the credit for what they built.
Who decides when it all started.
Why “World War 9”?
They count the world wars one and two.
But the longest war on this land never got a number.
It’s been going for over 500 years, on paper, in laws, in census books and in school books.
We call it World War 9. WW9. World War IX.
How they fight it
- They rename us. Indian. Mulatto. Colored. Negro. Black. Same families, new names, every census.
- They split us. Rolls and laws drew lines between people who were one people.
- They take the credit. When they found mounds and cities, they said a “lost race” built them.
- They move the start date. They say our story starts at the boat. It didn’t.
How we fight back
With receipts. Their own paper.
Their kings, their judges, their census takers, saying it in their own words.
- The Library: our record on trial. Court cases argued with their own paper.
- The Atlas: the record on a map. Every dot has its source.
- Roots: free guides to find your own people in the record.
- The clothes: every shirt is a real artifact with its story. Wear the receipt.
A few receipts
- In 1757 the king of Portugal had to pass a law ordering his officials to stop calling the Indians “Negros.” You only ban a word everybody is using.
- In 1524 the first European to write about the Carolina coast said the people there were “black in color.”
- The U.S. census had a rule: part Indian and part Negro was listed as Negro “unless the Indian blood predominated.”
See them all in the Library.
Who’s fighting
Us. The Aboriginal, copper-colored people of this land, renamed on paper, never erased.
And anybody who wants the real story.
Renamed Black. Born Aboriginal.
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