Thanks, Marcie. 'Hope you haven't washed away! Angelyn ------ Original Message ----- From: Dusty Sent: Mon, Aug 5, 2002 2:49pm To: <CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: [CHOCTAW-SE] Louisiana antimiscegnation laws re Native Americans Thanks Marcie - this is good information for the archives! dusty List Admin. ----- Original Message ----- From: Marcia Lee <mlee@uwf.edu> To: <CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 8:16 AM Subject: [CHOCTAW-SE] Louisiana antimiscegnation laws re Native Americans > Good morning all, > > Although these laws were not directed at the Choctaws of > Louisiana they would have affected them & all others classified as > Native American in Louisiana & anyone doing genealogy in Louisiana might > find these laws interesting in finding clues to missing ancestors. > > These are from White by Definition - Social Classification in > Creole Louisiana by Virginia Dominguez, Rutgers University Press, 1986 > ed. "The Louisiana Supreme Court decision in the case of Adele v. > Beauregard in 1810 explicitly stated that American Indians were persons > of color, and this classification was accepted as valid throughout the > nineteenth century. This meant that until 1870 when antimiscegenation > statutes were repealed by Reconstruction governments, marriages between > Indians and whites were prohibited. When interracial marriages were > again outlawed in 1894, Indians---still classified as people of > color---were again prohibited from marrying whites. This depended > exclusively on their identification as persons of color. The first legal > sign of a change in the classification of Indians came in the form of a > 1920 statute (act220; Louisiana Revised Statute 9:201) that treated the > union of an Indian and a person of the colored and black race as > miscegenetic and thereby nullified it completely. Indians were thereby > described as noncolored for the first time in Louisiana's legal history. > By the 1930's the attorney general explicitly stated that marriages > between white persons and Indians was not prohibited in Louisiana." > > Notice prior to the acquisition of Louisiana in 1803 there didn't > seem to be any need for laws relating to whether or not Native Americans > were persons of color & who they couldn't marry. One supposes that meant > it wasn't a problem for the French or Spanish who came before the > Americans. > > Well back to work, Ya'll stay dry down here along the coast. Its > pitch dark here & raining good. They don't let us stay home for a little > old thing like a tropical storm. > > Take care, Marcie > > > > ==== CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST Mailing List ==== > Got a PROBLEM?? Got a GRIPE?? Just wanna' WHINE?? Don't post it to the list. Write to me, the listowner, at CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-admin@rootsweb.com > ==== CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST Mailing List ==== HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE.... Send msg. to CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L-request@rootsweb.com Put "one" word in "body" of message:... "unsubscribe" without the quotes and spelled correctly. Nothing in the subject line... Turn off signatures.......