INDIGENOUS Series: A Common Meeting Ground for an Awakening Nation How DNA, Genealogy, and Oral History Are Uniting a New Generation Reclaiming Their Identity (BALTIMORE – February 12, 2026) – More than anything, this show has become a common meeting ground — a space for people with an expanded understanding of who they are and how they see America. When we published our first piece last October on Albert Perry’s DNA, we knew we were touching something deep. Nearly 2,000 readers engaged with the story of a South Carolina man whose Y-chromosome — haplogroup A00, dating back more than 300,000 years — forced geneticists to reconsider the timeline of human ancestry. But what we didn’t fully anticipate was that the article would become a doorway into something much bigger: a national awakening. Since then, the Remember Who You Are: Indigenous Series on BMORENews and the Emmy-nominated Doni Glover Show have grown into something none of us quite expected. What started as a topic I had lightly shared with audiences for years took definitive shape last August when I connected with Mike Lane online. While I had a broad understanding of Indigenous identity among melanated people, Lane and other Indigenous scholars illuminated a movement already well underway — an awakening happening across the nation. Chief Top Katz immediately comes to mind. The Awakening Melanated people — particularly those under 35 — are proclaiming their indigeneity with pride and conviction. Many reject the term “Black,” seeing it as a colonial label rather than an ancestral identity. They are reclaiming something families often hid for generations. In some cases, families concealed Indigenous identity for survival. In others, that identity was stripped from them altogether. They were reclassified. Can you imagine being declassified—and then reclassified by the state? That is precisely what happened, systematically and legally. This is where the one-drop rule enters the story. And this is where figures like Walter Plecker emerge. The Plecker Blueprint: Stealing Land by Stealing Identity As head of Virginia’s Bureau of Vital Statistics, Plecker aggressively enforced the Racial Integrity Act of 1924. Through rigid racial classifications, thousands of Native families were reclassified as “colored,” severing their legal recognition and weakening land claims. We know it as the one-drop rule. The impact was not merely bureaucratic — it was economic and generational. When identity is altered on paper, land can be lost. When land is lost, wealth disappears. When wealth disappears, history shifts. The legal erasure did not stop in Virginia. South Carolina’s 1740 Negro Act criminalized literacy among the enslaved and blurred distinctions between “Negro,” “Indian,” and “mulatto.” Across the South, racial categories became tools of consolidation. Treaties matter because paper trails matter. Documentation of dispossession is also documentation of proof. The Math and the Questions Historians estimate that roughly 12.5 million Africans were trafficked across the Atlantic, and approximately 400,000 to 500,000 arrived in what became the United States — about 4–6% of the total. Today, more than 44 million Americans identify as Black or African…
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