One of the toughest units in the United States Army was the Seminole-Negro Indian Scouts. This elite group was recruited in 1870 from black people living in Mexico.
In the fields and homes of the colonial plantations of the United States in the late eighteenth century, the first intimate relations between African-American and Native-American peoples were forged in their collective oppression at the hands of the "
The historical relationship between Native Americans and African-Americans has been called, "one of the longest unwritten chapters in the history of the United States." Unlike the commonly held perception that slavery in America consisted only o
Although most of the two million claiming Native American ancestry in the United States are of racially mixed backgrounds, many are still amazed to find that many African Americans are of Indian heritage.
