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.

Department of the Interior proposed reducing funding for tribal colleges by more than $100 million. Some tribal college ...

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.

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 ...