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Where do most mixed black-native Americans live in the US today? I know they are probably concentrated in the Southeast more, but I am wondering if there are cities or specific areas within the Southeast that you can find them? I am particularly interested to know where the black Cherokees are.
Genuine mixed black/indian populations are few and far in between.
Always exercise a high degree of skepticism with any claims of "Native American" ancestry. This is particularly true with respect to people who claim to be mixed black/native american...for complex social reasons, lots of people in the past identified as some kind of Indian even though they were not at all. In some cases, whole tribes were made up.
We have quite a few Black/Native American enrolled tribal members here in Oklahoma. A few live in Muskogee OK for Black/Cherokee. Black Seminoles are in the Shawnee OK area. I have met some of Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes but not many.
The tribe with the highest number of mixed NA/African members that I can think of is the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe in Connecticut. Here's a snapshot of the tribe's Council: The Mashantucket (Western) Pequot Tribal Nation
As you can see, most of their Tribal Council members are of strong African descent. Interestingly, I've heard other NA tribes bash the Mashantucket tribe as "insufficiently Indian," in part because of the low Indian blood quantum among many members. Much of the criticism I've heard is pure racist, though, especially as a lot of it comes from other tribes with lineal descent blood requirements only, which leads to many in those tribes often having substantially more European ancestry than NA ancestry. Yet, only the predominately African ancestry Indian tribes get called out.
Oklahoma is home to more federally recognized native tribes than any other state. In a recenly released Oklahoma publication I found the the history of the Native and Black settlers to Oklahoma before statehood.
The Oklahoma State Library has an amazing amount of information from early Oklahoma thanks to the first newspaper publishers. The state librarians will do limited research upon request.
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