The Black Indians America Erased

Black history, Black Native Americans, Afro-Indigenous people, and African American history reveal a forgotten truth: Black Indians were openly recorded in early U.S. census records—then erased by law and paperwork.Black history, Black Native Americans, Afro-Indigenous people, and African American history reveal a forgotten truth: Black Indians were openly recorded in early U.S. census records—then erased by law and paperwork.

Early colonial journals, tax records, and U.S. census documents from the 1700s and early 1800s openly listed people as “Black Indian,” “Indian Negro,” or Afro-Indigenous—with no controversy. Native and African families lived together, shared land, customs, and lineage across the Southeast and Indian Territory.

But by the mid-1800s, those identities began to vanish. Federal policies like the Dawes Act (1887) and Curtis Act (1898) forced Native nations to enroll citizens under rigid racial categories. Afro-Indigenous families were often placed on Freedmen rolls, splitting families and stripping land, citizenship, and recognition.

This video explores how identity was erased not by war—but by paperwork, and how Black Native communities like the Black Seminoles, Cherokee Freedmen, and others resisted that erasure.

In this video, you’ll learn:
• How early U.S. records openly documented Black Indians
• How federal laws rewrote Native identity through paperwork
• Why Afro-Indigenous families were separated on tribal rolls
• Who John Horse and the Black Seminoles were
• How Black Native identity still survives today





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