Honoring Revolutionary Patriots of Color While Investing in Future Generations
Because remembrance is service. Because education is legacy. Because we rise by lifting others.
About the Initiative
The Daughters of Color Boutique & Scholarship Initiative supports student scholarships and educational programming while helping to increase awareness of Revolutionary Patriots of African, Indigenous, and multiracial ancestry whose stories have too often been overlooked.
As a DAR member, genealogist, writer, and descendant of Revolutionary-era families, I support this initiative because it connects remembrance with action. Each purchase helps fund scholarships while honoring the ancestors whose lives, labor, service, and sacrifice helped shape this nation.
Support Student Scholarships
Proceeds from boutique merchandise support student scholarships. Your purchase helps carry the legacy of Forgotten Patriots forward through education, research, and public history.
Donations and scholarship support are one of the ways DAR members help advance service, education, and remembrance within the organization. This initiative allows supporters to honor Patriots of Color while investing directly in students and future public historians.
Descendants in Action
This gallery will feature descendants, kinfolk, friends, DAR members, educators, researchers, and supporters wearing Daughters of Color merchandise in support of student scholarships.
I will continue adding photos of myself, my kinfolk, and supporters wearing Daughters of Color pins, shirts, and other merchandise as we honor the ancestors and support future scholars.
Why Scholarships Matter
For generations, Patriots of Color were excluded from traditional narratives of the American Revolution. Their descendants, however, preserved memory through oral history, family records, community knowledge, church archives, military files, land deeds, DNA research, and public history work.
Supporting scholarships ensures that future students, researchers, educators, and community leaders have opportunities to continue this work of recovery, remembrance, and truth-telling.
Living Legacies
Antonia Van Salee Arrives in New Netherland
Coming Fall 2026
Antonia Van Salee will arrive in New Netherland this fall to promote descendant history, public education, scholarship support, and the recovery of overlooked Atlantic and Indian Ocean stories.
Watch this space for Antonia’s appearances, storytelling images, Holland Dawg moments, and future announcements connected to the Daughters of Color Boutique & Scholarship Initiative.
Living Legacies
The stories of Patriots of Color did not end with the Revolution. They live on through descendants, researchers, educators, public historians, students, and communities committed to telling fuller and truer histories.
Every photograph, every record, every recovered name, every scholarship, and every act of remembrance helps build a future rooted in truth.
Honor the ancestors. Support the students. Carry the legacy forward.
Honor the ancestors. Support the students. Carry the legacy forward.