Indigenous Series: Paper Genocide, Walter Plecker, and the Re-Assigning of Race

What happens when the government changes your racial identity on paper—and generations later, your descendants are left fighting to reclaim their history?

Tonight’s Indigenous Series examines “paper genocide,” the systematic reclassification of Native people through official records. We take a closer look at Walter Plecker, Virginia’s longtime registrar of vital statistics, whose policies erased Indigenous identities by labeling Native families as “Black” or “colored.”

How did the reassignment of race affect families, tribal recognition, land claims, culture, and the way Americans understand their ancestry today?

Join us for an important conversation about identity, historical erasure, and the Indigenous bloodlines that official records attempted to bury.

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