The Shinnecock Indian Nation Crowns a New Miss Junior Teen Shinnecock (2011)

By Video Journalist Waldo Cabrera
The Shinnecock Indian Nation hosts a special pageant.
Featured Interviews: Nishwe Williams and Ayana Smith, co-Coordinators, Miss Teen Shinnecock Pageant; Gordell Wright, Youngblood Singers; Mattah Wright, Former Miss Junior Teen Shinnecock; Gianni Tyler Willis, Miss Junior Teen Shinnecock
For more information visit: www.ShinnecockNation.com
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[@kehbellakeh2378]

Mad respect...knowledge of self is so key!

[@CosmicAli_TheObserver]

Wasté!! (Beautiful in Lakota)

[@Glad2BGolden]

Beautiful! I love it. The winner crying made me tear up too.

[@whatever736]

Shalawam Wa CHA'an. All praises to King Ahayah. This is outstanding.🕊❣

[@ApacheKid77]

Fantastic Clip blessings to the tribe...

[@SupahFans]

America Loves You. Thank You for keeping your Traditions Alive.

[@rashiidalmahdi3830]

Beautiful vibe

[@CopperJedi]

I wish more so called "Black Americans" will wake up and find their feet still connected to their ancestral ground

[@emilyfrugalsworthkiang2324]

Beautiful.

[@joeskys2362]

This is what a beauty pageant should be I loved it.

[@lemfarba4827]

How so?

[@joeskys2362]

@@lemfarba4827 I just love the way that this beauty pageant focuses on the beauty of culture and, education of young girls. Instead of sexualizing and, exploiting them for prizes.

[@cookiecookie1834]

This is beautiful

[@Tayy1800]

Amazing !

[@Youarea123]

I find this interesting as a native american woman I never seen or heard of this tribe they look like they're African but we come in all shades we DO NOT all look the same clearly their tradition is alive and well more power to them 🤎✊🏽

[@BraveHawk334]

Dumb ass comment

[@skellagyook]

Some look more African, but to me most of them look like a mix of Native American and African, and some look more Native. They're a mixed-race tribe (mostly Native and Black)

[@Thomas_Oklahoma]

Kyara, they are just a very mixed Tribe, some are 40% or more Black, some 40% or more white while the rest pure Native or over 70% Native.

[@aquastar5314]

This is the problem when everything is "white washed" .

[@copperdee3073]

@@BraveHawk334 FACTS! They look nothing like Africans. They are the real Indigenous American Indian,

[@SmashinAdams]

Remember that 'year-2000-flood-of-POC-talking-white' that we USED TO laugh at? It's amazing how many POC have assimilated ourselves on purpose AGAIN. HB Cushman said of my Chahta tribe that we "were great imitators...of those with whom they associated." Smh.

[@qb_balloons]

All those slaves went to Brazil not North America

[@danoqamyasharahla6544]

Not true brother, that narrative is false, the "Black" Brazilians like us are Indigenous to the Americas. There's a lot of them who know their American Aboriginal roots.

[@CrowdPleeza]

@@danoqamyasharahla6544
Blacks in Brazil are very African with their culture. Religions like Candomble,Umbanda and Macumba have African influences. Capoeira came from Angola.

[@judahbenisrael313]

All you people need to look up eastern native history and get some knowledge.they are obviously mix and and native.it is well know that a few of the eastern tribes mixed a lot with slaves and even Europeans like for example this tribe and the the tribe met with pilgrims and started thanksgiving.

[@elpashathe7royalmoabites627]

Mix with what mongolian or 5dollar indian? Gtfo

[@tippy550storm]

@@elpashathe7royalmoabites627 Blacks can B so racist. N.A. never were Mongoloian, they were classifed as Mongoloid but not Mongolian. The Shinnicoek are part African and part Native American & probably part European so they are a tri racial tribe but look more African than Native or European.

[@stormy-le6pb]

The New Yorker. "In the mid-seventeenth century, the Shinnecock population dwindled, when new diseases came ashore with the colonists. It became necessary to intermarry, and the Shinnecocks often married African-Americans. Today, most Shinnecocks look black but feel Indian-" www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/12/13/reservations

[@YSSipher]

They married African-Americans? A term that didn't even exist.

[@skellagyook]

I'd say most tend to look mixed (both Indian and black) but it varies.

[@copperdee3073]

@@stormy-le6pb So called "Blacks" are the original American Indian. Not your fault if you can't grasp that, we all been lied to and some won't accept that fact.

[@chrisconnors9449]

“Look black but feel indian”??- nice try, but no. they are Shinnecocks/American Indians. (Federally Recognized at that).

[@chrisconnors9449]

A lot of tribes in the Midwest and westcoast are mixed white. Don’t see any of you feeling the need to constantly point that out.