Norton MacAlister Family Blog

The story : Its BACK!  Detroit Paradise Valley /  Harmonie Park  hopes to be a scene that started up again in the 1960s   Meanwhile it has gotten  completely restored down to the cobblestone in 2019 after being destroyed by the blight busting urban renewal movement of the 1960s  The 5 minute podcast is here :  https://wdet.org/posts/2015/10/19/81771-curiosid-how-a-1900s-black-detroit-community-was-razed-for-a-freeway/       You need to see the EARLY Black & White Photos here   https://www.blackbottomstreetview.com/ PHOTOCREDIT  J C  Amazing Photo of  January 2021 snowstorm in Detroit of  THE BELT   The BELT is an art alley steps away from  old black area of  Harmonie Park - a musical street mainly Randolph and a theatre street (mainly Broadway)  Imagine black people taking a break between sets on Randolph . There was a thriving musical scene here from the 1870s to the 1970s...

 

5 minute Read Detroit Free Press  <  open to read  You can skate to Gospel  or show off to  hip hop like Bow Wow in the movie Roll Bounce .  Click on the link ABOVE for the full story on a black tradition in Detroit  Yes Bow Wow has skated in the D even though the movie was based in LA   here is a clip   https://youtu.be/GB_lCL05KnI

 Check out this preview video on the Dequindre Cut Walk   This was one of the activities you voted for on the survey that got a high number of votes

  Comanche Family Some American Indian tribes are claiming you as little as 1/64th native American even if you were able to prove that your ancestors were enslaved by East Coast tribes. Or traveled the trail of Tears .    Why ?  Because of the basic tribal census (non genetic)  you can go to college free if you can prove @1/4 tribal native on the official Dawes Rolls. A special count was taken at the turn of the century as the frontier was closing called the Dawes Rolls. If you were listed as a native American there - you belong.  Unfortunately a count was not taken at the beginning of Indian removal. The Natives were not planning to be removed  even though pre Civil War the East Coast Tribes particularly the Cherokee thought they were going to be compensated and joined the Confederacy which promised them their ancestral lands.  We all know how that turned out. This online search makes it easier to work on your family tree  Hopefully I can g...