Kofi Piesie Tv research team September 16, 2019 CIMARRONS: A Historical Survey of the Western Hemisphere’s First African Freedom Fighters What exactly is a Cimarron…? With modern day technology allowing us to share information faster, vaster, and more thorough than any other time in recorded history, we now have the ability to analyze the historical story of how Africans found themselves in the Western Hemisphere. With useful research tools, such as Google, Yahoo and Wikipedia, one can research a broad arrange of topics. In saying this, people who have access to these amazing researching tools can now better understand historical and cultural events of our America’s past. This article will delve deep into the history of African Americans, through the lens of the Cimarron people. By utilizing these at-you-fingertip researching tools, one can greater understand “who they are” by understanding “who they were!” For example if one was to search for Cimarron in your preferred search engine, the results will give various hits, including feral animals to cities, towns and rivers, etc. Additionally, the word is associated to numerous “Western” novels dedicated to cattle herdsmen migrating into the Wild, Wild West… One of the most common results from the internet searches includes the 2002 film that inspired a question. This question was posed by one of the children of the Kofi Piesie Research Team members. The question being asked is “Are you talking about my movie about the horses? This movie is entitled Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron? What has been mentioned thus far has increased the desire to shed light on the amazing yet uncommonly known history of the first African freedom fighters in the Western Hemisphere.This history is the negro cimarron (defined as: runaway slaves, wild, cannot be tamed, one who knows he is oppressed, etc.). Kofi Piesie Tv research team !1 Kofi Piesie Tv research team September 16, 2019 Cimarron’s Importance in History We (African Americans) are often not taught that there was a son of Christopher Columbus who traveled and settled in the Americas and that the first major slave revolt took place under his supervision. The average African American man, woman, boy or girl are often only taught of their arrival to American history as cotton picking slaves in United Demonym States history during the 17th and 18th centuries as their origins to this country in a historical story. Furthermore, many are mislead (unintentionally (/ˈdɛmənɪm/; from Greek or not) to think that African people who were transported to the Western δῆμος, dêmos, "people, tribe" and όνομα, ónoma, "name") Hemisphere were ignorant, unskilled, and docile people who displayed no or gentilic (from Latin gentilis, knowledge, comprehension or desire for freedom, justice, equality or "of a clan, or gens") is a word liberations until the beginning the middle of the 19th century. that identifies residents or natives of a particular place We, the Kofi Piesie Tv Research Team, have compiled a list of the long and is usually derived from the name of the place. lost, but not forgotten, freedom fighters of yours’ and our’s past. This list was compiled to teach and guide, not, in a form of hate, discouragement, Capitulaciones rage, or rebellious behavior but to highlight historically accurate events that can provide a compass through our history to see the African spirit is just as The Spanish word for Capitulations-in international human, just as intelligent, and just as much comprehension as any other law refers to the capitulations people group of mankind. Man does not belong chained to bondage, regime: that is, the system of forbidden to express and experience the beauty of a fully liberated life. And treaties concluded by certain these short (mini) stories are of our ancestors who were fully aware of that States which conferred the privilege of extraterritorial and became known as Cimarrons. We are only intending to provide a jurisdiction within their useful map to help guide you, knowing the beauty of any exploration is in boundaries on the subjects of the journey itself, and the map is merely a tool to help guide and protect another State.[6] from traveling in the wrong directions. We are hopeful that you will take Palenques time and complete that wonderful journey by completing research on your own academic quest. Finding the beauty in your (OURS) A#ican-American history. Palenques-is a Spanish word for arena, also known for the Mayan city of Lakamha. In this article it will be important to remember it being used in the sense of referring to a small city state and not necessarily an arena. Cumbe A Mende word for “separate out of the place” Again,Finding the beauty in your (OURS) A#ican-American history Kofi Piesie Tv research team !2 Kofi Piesie Tv research team September 16, 2019 Earliest use of Cimarron in the Western Hemisphere… When discussing the earliest use of the term Cimarron in the Western Hemisphere, the discussion is rather complicated and complex. The complexity is heightened when trying to uncover where the term was applied and also how it was created. Before these questions can be answered, we must first understand the term was never a self- determined identifier for any particular group of peoples. It is not a Etymology demonym applied to a specific regional group of people, and it has morphed etymological over hundreds of years. Its geographic locality has • Negro Ladino-Although not varied, though it does have its origin of use connected to cimas - a directly linked to the word cimarron Spanish word for hills. these group people will be referenced in the early origins of Moreover, the term Cimarron (more recently recorded as their story, referring to the first groups of Africans brought to the “maroon”) was used for “beast of burden transported to the New World in Americas, who were converted to the early 1500s.” Though, the term is not restricted to just classifying Spanishized Christians and or servants groups of people escaping colonial oppression to live within hills, summits, or secluded wooded areas, swamps, etc. “The word maroon, first • Maroon-"put ashore on a recorded in English in 1666, is by varying accounts taken #om the French word marron, desolate island or coast" by way of which translates to “runaway black slave,” or the American/Spanish cimarrón, which punishment, 1724 (implied in means “wild runaway slave,” “the beast who cannot be tamed,” or “living on mountaintops.” marooning), earlier "to be lost in the wild" (1690s); from maroon, maron The Spanish origina%y used the word in reference to their stray cattle. It is further believed (n.) "fugitive black slave living in the that the word cimarrón is #om cima or “summit.”[1] The term Cimarron will be wilder parts of Dutch Guyana or Jamaica and other West Indies continuously found in numerous parts of South America, Mexico, Florida islands" (1660s), earlier symeron and even Oklahoma. Through these discoveries, implications of the term (1620s), from French marron, is used to define African peoples who escaped the hells of slavery and simarron, said to be a corruption of Spanish cimmaron "wild, untamed, developed their own cities and towns. Rightfully, creating their own place unruly, fugitive" (as in Cuban negro in history of not only the New World history, but World history! cimarron "a fugitive black slave"). This is from Old Spanish cimarra "thicket," which is probably from There has also been an association to the Taino (Awarkan language) word: cima "summit, top" (from Latin cyma si’maran “the flight of the arrow”. "sprout"), and the notion is of living wild in the mountains.[2.1] We must be mindful the term has been used to describe rebellious Native Americans who fought back against the earliest colonist’s • Seminole-1763, from Creek (Muskogean) simano:li, earlier oppression, forced forms of servitude, and the pillaging of their lands, simalo:ni "wild, untamed, runaway," culture and resources. During the Colonial Period, there were instances from American Spanish of both Native American and African people groups joining together to cimarron……”[2.3] combat against the forced bondage enforced upon them throughout the • Cimarron-"bighorn, Rocky Americas’ history. As time progressed the term would eventually be more Mountain sheep," 1850, from commonly used strictly to describe the many different pockets of African American Spanish, from an runaway slaves who established base camps on small areas of land, often adjective, literally "wild, unruly;”[2] referred to as palenques, quilombo, palamares, cumbe, cities and towns (such as Cimarroon, Okla.). Kofi Piesie Tv research team !3 Kofi Piesie Tv research team September 16, 2019 A semi-popular conversation taking place amongst researchers, historians, anthropologists, ethnographers, and scientist is the possibility of Africans in the Americas pre-Columbian history. To date, no authoritative figures of any respected fields of scholastic or scientific studies have found any reason to believe there’s undeniable evidence to support this idea. What is agreed upon and backed by historical documentation, artifacts and the study of DNA, is that African peoples shipped to the western hemisphere, regardless of being a free man or in bondage, has and will continue to create a monumental impact to the Americas. “The BLOOD of Afica flows in the New World. Brought to western shores in chains, uncounted mi%ions of Negroes have remained to share their culture, their personality, and the blackness of their skin with their English or Iberian hosts.” Herrring,” p.89. It is most commonly agreed upon that African peoples first arrived in the Americas in the beginning of the 16th century. Africans, did without a doubt, play a major role in the early exploration/ expedition missions, via both land and sea.