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Downvote and Report comments that are unhelpful or grossly off-topic. Upvote informative, well sourced answers. Ivan Van Sertima Books.New to /r/AskHistorians? Please read our subreddit rules and FAQ before posting! Apply for Flair If you are interested in reading more about the African people in the Americas, see Dr. African people and Indigenous people and the cultural analogies we share are part of the fabric of this land. In fact, many Tribes have faced challenges obtaining federal recognition as a result of being misidentified as African American.įor me, African History Month, just like Native History Month, should be celebrated every day. One needs only to attend a large Powwow such as the Gathering of Nations to see the impact of these ancient relationships. 1 Some liked what they saw and stayed on, being adopted into the Tribes, contributing to the life of the community, and starting families of their own. He presents evidence that long before North and South America were colonized, Africans built ships and visited here, bringing goods and animals to trade and establishing relationships between themselves and the Indigenous people who were care-taking the lands. Ivan Van Sertima also explores the pre-colonial existence of African people in his book They Came before Columbus. In his book of the same name, Lerone Bennett describes this presence as “ before the Mayflower.” However, fewer people know of the presence of African people in what are now known as the continents of North and South America. Some may even know that when the enslavement of African people came to a close, there were at least two colonies created: one was Liberia in West Africa, and one was in Truro, Nova Scotia, the Ancestral homelands of my people, the Mi’kmaq. 
Some may know that certain of the Tribes, especially those paradoxically identified as civilized by the government, adopted the enslaving of African people as a way to defend themselves from federal pressure believing that it would help them maintain their land. It’s always surprising to me to know that many still believe that the history of the African people in North America began in the holds of ships, bound for a life of chattel slavery.
Black History Month, or what I and many others like to call African History Month, is celebrated in the shortest month of the year.
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