Black Native American fight to regain status

Brown Skin doesn't just come from Africa. Even some African tribes will tell you they don't come from Africa or they migrated their! They don't even call Africa Africa. Our Ancestors knew who they were! Noone tells an Aboriginal Australian they really came from Africa. Plus open books it's written and drawn what the Spaniards saw when they voyaged the America's.

As a Afro Indigenous person myself, all those American Blacks with no lineage to the Five Tribes who think they're entitled to our resources, land and benefits need to stay out of the Five Tribe's business. If any Afro Indigenous or Black person wasn't accepted as a Citizen it's because they didn't meet the lineage because they either have missing records or they don't have lineage, you weren't rejected because you are Black.

I’m from Oklahoma also and I’ve been telling my people this is what we are I’m Cherokee and Choctaw Indian myself I’m very very dark brown and hair is super curly if y’all seen my face you’d know it’s time to stand up and get our land back from these people they know we thrive on our own and they know we never wanted to be integrated

The five tribes who enslaved Black people—the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole—became known to whites as the “Five Civilized Tribes.” “These people are trying to assimilate and figure out where they fit into the racial hierarchy of the United States,” said Roberts.Feb 4, 2021

ANY human being would want to restore and honor the burial grounds of their ancestors!

Conversation that needs to be had. People feel threatened because it changes everything.

I just recently discovered that both of my grandparents are Cherokee. My grandmother has passed on and my grandfather is hanging on by a thread. I'm desperately learning all I can about my Cherokee heritage before he passes away. He did all the research.

Shows just how immature we'll call it most people are when they see darker skin indigenous people just because it doesn't fit the narrative you've been fed frightens you... Sad

"Racist?" If you're not of actual indigenous heritage, then you're not a member of the tribe.

Natives are not afro. End of story you can be mixed but native is not afro. We are our own beautiful race.

reading some of these comments reinforces my belief that america has dumbed down so far they will never ecover

Once money came into play they just so happen to change their minds.

There were no black Native American tribes this is an insult to the actual Native Americans everywhere

It's also interesting how certain governments are supporting certain videos some of which are good some of which are cynical

I am Creek. "Red" Native American's are true indigenous - we were the the first people in North America. Black Indians were formerly slaves that were forcefully brought here -- they are NOT indigenous. The Back story is that when slaves were freed they were alienated and unwelcome wherever they went but we Natives allowed them to share living spaces on our reservations. Though I do love and appreciate our African Americans, they do not actually share our Native identity.

This make me so sad man they basically destroyed and erased a whole lineage

No outside organization, governments or rights groups has a right to dictate any Tribe's enrollment criteria, each Tribe decides their respective enrollment criteria. A few U.S. Supreme Court rulings in the late 1970's and early 1980's gave all Tribes the right to determine their own respective enrollment criteria. Tribe's use either lineage or blood quantum which varies from Tribe to Tribe unless a Tribe reserved a special roll for adoptees such as the freedmen among most of Five Tribes of Oklahoma and a few in the East.

I have recently learned that only 5% of Black slaves in North America (388,000) came from Africa between 1525 & 1866, the other 95% of Black People already lived in North America for thousands of years before (Native Indians from Asia/Mongolia) and (Europeans) arrived, see YT "(Copper coloured indigenous aborigines)." Fascinating documentation with evidence. The Europeans 1790 Census have Named the indigenous Black People in North America, as "(African American's)," (Black People that have Never in History been to Africa). Why?

The average Black American doesn’t look Indigenous. North American Indigenous people typically have silky hair, slanted eyes, high cheekbones and aquiline noses

I wish conscientious voting was more ingrained in our societies. If every person in those tribes was told the facts and given an opportunity to have a say, the results would likely be very different. Many tribal members are partially white, black or Asian (through intermarriage in the US or admixture with mestizo people) from Latin countries yet partially black tribal members who look more black are the ones being rejected? RIDICULOUS.