Ecology Event | Wilmington NC

thank you Sokoto House for a great event to share awareness with each other about the contamination of our foods and waterways and also giving us the platform to share more about our people.

[@warrenspaulding7829]

Facts well said sir

[@coachlatonyabaruc]

Excellent presentation!!!! We are still here!!!!

[@FireWalkerBigCat]

Nyaweh

[@oldsoul4631]

I love your platform please continue to do all you’re doing and more!! Watching your content always leaves me feeling comfortable in embracing my Native American / Indigenous heritage. Growing up I was never made to feel comfortable being of the same blood line of many natives in the tribe where I grew up due to my skin tone even though my ancestors are the same as many of them in that tribe smh. Not to mention my mother’s maiden name was the same name as my ancestors which again many of them descend from the same name many of them bore themselves!! EVANS - So seeing you, someone who looks more like myself with knowledge of your blood line heritage and native tongue inspires me to proclaim my heritage again something I have long set aside due to the looks and thoughts of others in the tribe that many of my cousins belong too for nothing more than my skin being brown versus fair skinned. It’s a sad, ugly truth that has kept me out of native spaces as a whole; spaces my relatives occupy and spaces that all natives occupy from being self conscious about being fully accepted as well as simply being judged and or questioned about my blood line. And since getting back into the original excitement I first had to learn more about my native ancestry I’ve taken time to comb through the dna matches of my mother’s children and myself and only recently since embracing this pride in my blood line again did I learn just how many dna relatives I found from Robeson county Locklears, Oxendines, Lowries/Lowerys, Chavis, Brayboy & connections to Rascoes & Smallwoods in Indian woods/Bertie county including the grand father of another brother like you that I admire whom first made me feel comfortable in my own skin and skin tone and heritage before finding your platform Dr. Arwin Smallwood so seeing him on your platform recently was a major high for me and those dna matches I never thought to search for extensively until recently I had already sited matches from areas and people I knew to be the core blood line of my mother’s people like the Evans, Richardsons, Lynchs, Silvers, Hedgepeth, Wests & Copelands as well as the Evans, Bradbys, Adkins/Atkins, Walden and Chavis of Charles City & Surry County Virginia. Been doing genealogy 33 years now since the age of 13. I’ve long known I was of native descent and who it came from had questions about the original tribe or tribes in the beginning but never doubted the blood yet others doubted for nothing more than how I look or more so because I don’t necessarily look like and have the phenotypes that most of this particular tribe/community of native people that share the same blood as me smh sorry for being long winded with this but I rarely speak truth to light on this topic and the effects of being shunned by some that should’ve simply accepted me as family can and has had on me feeling like I belong in the conversation of a being a native descendant and more importantly just having pride in this heritage like I have for my other ancestor’s ethnicities. You speak to and for a lot of people like myself continue to do so you do us proud Brother fr we come in all shades people💯