Passed on, without comment for the moment, from Ariel Levy’s “Reservations” (New Yorker of December 13), on the Shinnecock tribe’s push for a casino in the Hamptons of Long Island: Long Island’s Native Americans have been marrying African-Americans since the seventeenth century, when the Dutch started bringing slaves into New York. John Strong, the premier … Continue reading Slave status, racial status, and slurs