African descent Native Americans

While the U.S government has attempted to define Native American Indians by "blood quota," Native people have traditionally rejected that criteria and instead focused on identification with a Native American community and support for that community.  Native Americans include many people of African descent and they are proud to be Indian.

This is important to emphasize given the disgraceful attempt of the Cherokee Nation's leadership to strip the Cherokee Freedman of their citizenship. Today 184,000 people in the United States identify as both African and Native descent.

Here is an exhibit of African descent Native Americans.

And here is some history that shows that African descent people were becoming part of Native Communities before the Mayflower even sailed into Plymouth Harbor.