Big Chief Monk Boudreaux (center) leads his Mardi Gras Indian tribe, the Golden Eagles, on Super Sunday. ... they draw inspiration from both Native American and African ceremonial dress.

What If Native American Tribes Had Gotten Their ... to prosecute crimes committed on a reservation by an Indian. Henceforth, the tribe, ... not just whites but around 3,000 African Americans.

Their leader, Henry Berry Lowry, gave an interview while imprisoned in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1889, in which he described his ancestry as a mix of Portuguese and African instead of Indian.

Several tribes practiced slavery ... and director of the Oklahoma Indian Territory Museum of Black Creek Freedmen History. She traces her lineage to formerly enslaved people listed on a 1906 U.S.

The association of the Indians with the Lost Tribes was heard again and again. The report by Portuguese traveler Antonio Montezinos some 120 years later aroused remarkable interest.

For descendants of people who were enslaved by tribal nations, Juneteenth is both a celebration of freedom for people of African descent and a reminder of their struggle to be fully embraced by the ...