The New World movie starring Colin Farrell & Christian Bale
History of Native American Indians Culture: The New World Official Site
"I hope this film encourages the American people to look at the Native population here in Virginia," says Buck Woodard, the film's jack-of-all-trades animateur. "By all means, go out into the countryside where these communities are, and meet these people today. They're your post office worker, your county supervisor, your business leader. You know somebody in your community today who is Native, and these people are still part of the fabric of America. After 400 years of interaction with Europeans, Virginia Natives often have different faces from Indians from the western part of the country, and their cultures have evolved differently and adapted. But there's lots of Indian country in the southeast for people to experience and become engaged with, and I hope that The New World strikes an interest in those individuals who might be willing to go the extra mile to see that experience."
The history of Virginia Natives is the sad but inspiring tale of a people who have suffered over the past 400 years from military, cultural and, even in the 20th century, legal oppression. Walter Ashby Plecker, the first registrar of Virginia's Bureau of Vital Statistics-a rabid white supremacist and defender of eugenics, a form of pseudo-scientific racism-pushed the Racial Integrity Act through Virginia's General Assembly, which defined race classifications on birth and marriage certificates to two choices: either "white person" or "colored." A white person could have no more than 1/16th trace of Indian blood and no trace of black blood. And as Plecker perceived Virginia Indians as having become a "mongrel" mixture of black and Native blood, according to the law, they simply did not exist.
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