Our Focus
Community healing, status correction, restitution, and reunifying families separated by U.S. slavery and the Indian Wars.
Helping melanated Aboriginal Americans trace lineage, verify status, and pursue restitution—rooted in family, history, and law.
Community healing, status correction, restitution, and reunifying families separated by U.S. slavery and the Indian Wars.
“Do you know who your 4th great-grandparents are?”
Use our step-by-step guides and resource lists for federal, state, tribal, and community archives.
We empower families to document ancestry before 1865; restore names, land, and rights; and organize for repair. We teach research skills, provide community workshops, and advocate for policies that address historic separation and dispossession.
We call for federal recognition of lineage verification processes, correction of status in federal/state records, and restitution programs guided by community-defined evidence standards.
Curated links for federal, state, tribal, and community research.
Email us at rootsandboots1865@gmail.com or send a message here.
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