Super Sunday, typically in March near St. Joseph’s Day, is the year’s best day because all the Mardi Gras Indians come out on parade. The video I have embedded explains things to the uninitiated, but this video of the Creole Wild West is the best and most authentic of the Indian videos I have found lately. This clip from a Japanese documentary is also very good. Here are two Indians battling it out in Carrollton, using their secret language, and here is the participating crowd in Taylor Park.
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thanks for sharing – i remember this info on your blog last year…one of these years i’ll make it to new orleans for this celebration..
I think that there is a serious misunderstanding here. African Americans who originally masked as Mardi Gras Indians did not do so because they felt a connection. They themselves were Native American. Some Native Americans had dark complexions. There was also a lot of intermarriages among African slaves that escaped slavery and sought refuge among the Native Americans. So to say that African Americans mask as Indians because they fell a connection is in a sense incorrect. Approx. 90% of African Americans have some Native American ancestry so it’s more than just feeling a connection because of the similarities in the struggle. Most African Americans are indeed descendants of Native Americans.
*****Serious? Sure, yes, there´s also a “blood” thing. There is a lot written about all of this. –Z*****