List of people of African-American and Native American ancestry
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This is a list of notable people of Native American and African-American descent. No claim is made that any of these individuals are enrolled members or recognized descendants of Native American tribes. For notable Native American people who also have African heritage, see Notable "Black" Indians, and the articles on the individual Nations.
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Notable people of Native American and African-American descent[edit]
- Henry Armstrong's mother claimed "Iroquois" descent.[1] There is no such tribe.
- Estelle Bennett, a singer in The Ronettes; of Cherokee descent through her mother[2]
- Veronica "Ronnie Spector" Bennett, a singer in The Ronettes; of Cherokee descent through her mother.[2]
- Christopher "Ludacris" Bridges (Choctaw) through a great-great grandfather[3]
- James Brown said, "I have this American Indian in me. Apache Indian."[4][5]
- Jesse L. Brown (Chickasaw and Choctaw), naval officer, first African-American to become a naval aviator[6]
- Don Cherry (Choctaw) (1936–1995), jazz musician of Indian ancestry through his maternal grandmother[7]
- Stacey Dash is of West Indian and Aztec descent[8]
- Bison Dele, Cherokee-descent, was a NBA basketball player that helped the Chicago Bulls win their 5th NBA Championship in 1997.[9][10]
- Milt Davis is part Native American[11]
- Rosario Dawson is part Native American through her father[12]
- Ramona Douglass is part Oglala Lakota[13]
- Gary Dourdan is part Native American[14]
- Mabel Fairbanks (Seminole), figure skater and coach[15]
- Redd Foxx was part Seminole[16]
- Vivica A. Fox is part Native American[17]
- Meagan Good is part Cherokee and Taino[18]
- Alex Haley (1921-1992) had Cherokee ancestors[19][20]
- Ben Harper is part Cherokee[21]
- Aaliyah "Aaliyah" Haughton was part Oneida[22][23]
- Dorris Henderson is part Blackfoot[24]
- Lena Horne was part Native American[25]
- Langston Hughes was part Native American[26]
- Earle Hyman (Tuscarora, Haliwa-Saponi/Nottoway) (1926–2017), actor[27]
- Shar Jackson is part Cherokee[28]
- Sarah Jeffery's father is African-American and her mother is indigenous Canadian.[29]
- James Earl Jones is part Cherokee and Choctaw[30][31]
- Susannah Mushatt Jones was for a time the world's oldest living person and according to her family had some Native American ancestry.[32]
- Alexis Jordan is part Native American[33]
- Eartha Kitt was part Cherokee[34]
- Sanaa Lathan is part Native American[35]
- Ananda Lewis is part Creek and Blackfoot[36]
- Mance Lipscomb is part Choctaw[37]
- Amber Littlejohn is part Cherokee[38]
- Laura Love is part Native American[39]
- Richard Mayhew is part Native American and a landscape painter[40]
- Angela McGlowan is part Native American[41]
- James Meredith (Choctaw), desegregation pioneer[42]
- Leona Mitchell (Chickasaw), operatic soprano[43]
- Scott "Kid Cudi" Mescudi is part Native American [44]
- Nicole Ari Parker is part Cherokee[45]
- Rosa Parks was descended from a Native American slave on record[46]
- Ann Plato (ca. 1824–unknown), tribe unknown, one of the first African American published women authors[47]
- Oscar Pettiford's mother was Choctaw and his father part Cherokee[48][49]
- Martha Redbone, Native American Music Award-winning soul music of Shawnee, Choctaw and African American ancestry.[50]
- Della Reese's mother was a Cherokee woman[31]
- Salli Richardson's mother is African-American and Cherokee.[51]
- Brytni Sarpy, (Apache and Cherokee) actress and model[52]
- Willie "The Lion" Smith (Mohawk), jazz pianist[53]
- Woody Strode (Blackfoot, Cherokee, and Muscogee), decathlete, football player, and actor[54]
- Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas is part Native American[55]
- Billy Ray Thunder, a bull rider and bareback bronc rider whom has Native American heritage from both parents.[56]
- Chris Tucker took a DNA test that said he "likely" has some Native American ancestors[57]
- Tina Turner identifies herself as having Cherokee and Navajo heritage[31]
- Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins is part Native American[58]
- Kerry Washington self-identifies as part Native American[59]
- Amil "Amil" Whitehead is part Cherokee[60]
- Oprah Winfrey took a DNA test that said she "likely" has some Native American ancestors[57]
- Keke Wyatt is part Cherokee[61]
- Melisa "Kid Sister" Young is part Native American[62]
- Michael Zinzun (1949–2006), former Black Panther and anti-police brutality activist of African and Apache descent[63]
See also[edit]
- African Americans
- African American Lives, PBS miniseries with Henry Louis Gates Jr., focusing on African American genealogy
- Black Indians in the United States
- Louisiana Creole people
- Multiracial Americans
- Native Americans in the United States
References[edit]
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Estelle Bennett: Singer with the Ronettes". The Independent. Retrieved 2009-02-14.
- ↑ "Furious 7 Star Ludacris Learns About His Surprising Relatives". PEOPLE.com. 3 April 2015. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
- ↑ JONATHAN LETHEM (2009). "Being James Brown: The Godfather of Soul invented funk, befriended presidents and laid the foundations of rap. And he did it by defying the laws of space and time. Inside the private world of the baddest man who ever lived". Rolling Stone Magazine. Retrieved 2009-04-09.
- ↑ Contact Music (2004). "James Brown - James Brown's Indian Heritage". Contact Music. Retrieved 2009-04-09.
- ↑ Taylor, Theodore (2007). The Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. p. 23. ISBN 9781591148524. Search this book on
- ↑ Lavezzoli, Peter (2006). The Dawn of Indian Music in the West: Bhairavi. New York: Continuum. p. 317. ISBN 0826418155. Retrieved March 12, 2019. Search this book on
- ↑ "15 Beautiful Afro Latina Celebrities". cosmopolitan.com. 11 March 2014. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
- ↑ Rosenbaum, Cary (17 January 2017). "Ron Baker Is Native America's Next NBA Star". Indian Country Today. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
- ↑ Cohen, Josh (8 November 2011). "UNSOLVED BASKETBALL DREAMS". NBA Media Ventures. NBA. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
- ↑ via Associated Press. "Milt Davis, a Cornerback on 2 Title-Winning Teams, Dies at 79", The New York Times, October 2, 2008. Retrieved October 2, 2008.
- ↑ Barlow, Helen (2004-01-09). "Between The Rock and a hard place". Melbourne: The Age Online. Retrieved 2007-03-20.
- ↑ http://www.h-net.msu.edu/gateways/migration/threads/political/OMB15AMEA.html
- ↑ Sara Faillaci (2008). "Gary Dourdan Experiences". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on 2007-01-08. Retrieved 2008-10-10.
- ↑ Quintanilla, Michael (October 4, 2001). "Obituaries: Mabel Fairbanks, 85; Black Ice Skater". Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ Redd Foxx. Last.fm . Retrieved 28 August 2009.
- ↑ Kam Williams (2008). "Vivica A. Fox "Cover/Three Can Play That Game" Interview with Kam Williams". Realtime News. Retrieved 2008-05-05.
- ↑ The Angie Martinez Show Archived 2011-10-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ David Lowenthal. The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History. p. 218. Search this book on
- ↑ Marc R. Matrana. Lost Plantations of the South. p. 117. Search this book on
- ↑ Ben Harper | Roots | Part one Archived 2008-02-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Vibe Magazine's Emil Wilbekin: Remembering Aaliyah". CNN. 2001-08-27. Archived from the original on 2009-06-16. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
- ↑ Sutherland 2005, p. 9
- ↑ Colin Irwin, Dorris Henderson - US folk singer who settled in London, from The Independent
- ↑ William Ruhlmann (2008). "Artist: Lena Horne Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-08-01.
- ↑ "African-Native American Scholars". African-Native American Scholars. 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-30.
- ↑ "Tony & Emmy Nominated Actor Earle Hyman Passes Away at 91". Broadway Black. Black Broadway T&L Productions. 18 November 2017. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
- ↑ Ranjan Shandilya (2008). "Shar Jackson". Buzzle. Retrieved 2008-09-05.
- ↑ Weaver, Nicole (October 9, 2018). "Shockingly Two of the 'Latina' Stars in the 'Charmed' Reboot Aren't Actually Latina". Cheatsheet.com. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
- ↑ Unconventional wisdom: James Earl Jones speaks out. Retrieved 2008-01-05.
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 HUD, American Indian Heritage Month Archived 2009-03-06 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2008-01-05.
- ↑ "World's Oldest Person Susannah Mushatt Jones Celebrates 116th Birthday in Brooklyn". nbcnews.com. Retrieved 2017-04-18.
- ↑ "Biography – The Official Alexis Jordan Site". Official Alexis Jordan Site. Archived from the original on 2011-03-02. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
- ↑ "Indian Country News". indiancountrynews.net. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
- ↑ Vergo Magazine (2008). "VERGO Presents: Fashion with a Side of Life". Vergo Magazine. Archived from the original on 2009-05-31. Retrieved 2009-05-13.
- ↑ H.W. Wilson (2008). "Cover Biography for June 2005 Ananda Lewis, Television personality". The HW Wilson Company. Archived from the original on 2008-09-08. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
- ↑ Mance Lipscomb; Glen Alyn (1994). I say me for a parable: the oral autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas bluesman. New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 030680610X. Search this book on
- ↑ Yvonne Wakim Dennis; Arlene Hirschfelder; Shannon Rothenberger Flynn (18 April 2016). "Native American Almanac: More Than 50,000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenous Peoples". Visible Ink Press. pp. 0–656. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
- ↑ James M. Manheim (2008). "Laura Love Biography - Survived Group Suicide Planned by Mother, Formed Own Label after Negative Review". All Music Guide. Retrieved 2008-08-29.
- ↑ "'Art of Richard Mayhew' at MoAD". SFGate. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
- ↑ "Angela McGlowan Video | Interviews". OVGuide. Archived from the original on 2017-07-04. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
- ↑ McGee, Meredith Coleman (2013). James Meredith: Warrior and the America that Created Him. Santa Barbara: Praeger. p. 1. ISBN 9780313397394. Retrieved February 16, 2016. Search this book on
- ↑ "African-American". OSU-Tulsa Library Resource Guides. Oklahoma State University-Tulsa Library. Retrieved January 19, 2015.
- ↑ "25 Things You Didn't Know About Kid Cudi: His father was Mexican/Native American". Complex. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
- ↑ "Nicole Ari Parker Online: Chat Room Transcripts". Nicole Ari Parker Online. Archived from the original on 2011-07-14. Retrieved 2010-05-17.
- ↑ New York Times, Rosa Parks.. Retrieved 2008-01-09.
- ↑ "Ann Plato." Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
- ↑ "Oscar Pettiford: Bass Beyond Bop". npr.org. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
- ↑ Goldsby, John (22 October 2017). "The Jazz Bass Book: Technique and Tradition". Hal Leonard Corporation. Retrieved 22 October 2017 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Martha Redbone Interview by Tom Paul". 4 February 2008.
- ↑ Rushefsky, Mark E. (2015). Public Policy in the United States (5th ed.). London & New York: Routledge. p. 374. ISBN 9780765625281. Search this book on
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- ↑ Strode, Woody; Sam Young (1993). Goal Dust: The Warm and Candid Memoirs of a Pioneer Black Athlete and Actor. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 1–3. ISBN 9781568330143. Retrieved June 1, 2015. Search this book on
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- ↑ Moore, Stanford. "Meet the man they call Billy Ray Thunder". www.blackreins.com. Black Reins. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
- ↑ 57.0 57.1 Richard Willing (2006-02-01). "DNA rewrites history for African-Americans". USA Today. Retrieved 2008-08-05.
- ↑ Thoughts accessed 2008-08-29, Author Tionne Watkins, Published 1999, Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- ↑ Curtis, Nick (January 16, 2013). "Kerry Washington on making Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained". Evening Standard. Retrieved May 17, 2013.
- ↑ Diana Potts (2008). "Amil: Biography". MSN. Retrieved 2008-10-01.
- ↑ "Giving it to ya' straight no chaser:Keke Wyatt". Sister2Sister Magazine. 2007. Archived from the original on March 3, 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-12.
- ↑ Richard Cruz (2009). "Kid Sister – Format Mag Interview". Know The Ledge. Retrieved 2009-07-06.
- ↑ Stewart, Jocelyn Y. "Michael Zinzun, 57; Ex-Black Panther Challenged Southland Police Agencies." Los Angeles Times. 12 July 2006 (retrieved 20 May 2011)
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