Talk:Poarch Band of Creek Indians

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[edit] Ethnic identity

I realize this is still a sensitive topic: I rephrased the sentence about Indian intermarriage to indicate that Indians' descendants assumed black as well as white identities. If the Paredes article does not support this assertion -- I'll check -- then I will provide another reliable source that does. The color consciousness that was so all-important in the 19th-century South did not exist to the same degree in the Creek Nation, or even among Creeks in the Tensaw district (the ancestors of the Poarch Band). We should not romanticize this (wealthy Indians did own slaves, for instance), but we shouldn't overlook it either. -- Rob C. alias Alarob 16:54, 15 October 2007 (UTC)