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.

Three Black Americans find out which tribe and people group they share genetic fingerprints with in Africa! What else are we ...

According to historians, the Shinnecock Indian Nation has lived on eastern Long Island for 10,000 years, rather a longer residency than the denizens of the surrounding uber-wealthy and celebrity ...

While performing in a sold-out show during the Paris stop of her Cowboy Carter Tour, Beyoncé was heavily criticized for ...

Beyoncé faces criticism for wearing Buffalo Soldier shirt with controversial Native American language during Paris Cowboy Carter Tour performance on Juneteenth.

The American Indian Law Program at Colorado Law. At Colorado Law, we are committed to education and advocacy in Indigenous Peoples’ Law. Accordingly, our American Indian Law Program offers a full ...

The effort to gain greater legal status for a group of Native Americans in the heart of West Michigan has a renewed attempt ...

Zohran Kwame Mamdani, born in Uganda to an Indian father and Indian-American mother Mira Nair, embodies a unique multicultural identity. Raised in Que ...

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 ...