Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage

As an Afro American I have always wanted to find out how we contributed to the making of this country and have been collecting books to rebuild my library since my grandchildren have the same interest and enjoy reading them as well.

Gave great insight into two oppressed races, their innocence and trust destroyed and what happens when anyone feels trapped. You survive, betray, adapt or cease to exist.

I've read this book years ago. I was very exited to read the updated chapters and new content. The only thing I don't like about this book is that the photos aren't in color. It would've been an added touch.

I like this book, I'm still reading it. But I really like the information, the author did his research. And you can look up what the book says online. And it's all true.

I just started this book and although I’m sure the author meant well with his intention for this book the white supremacy in his words are there to be read for those who know how to read between the lines. Such statements as, “the Europeans with their advanced tools…” and the constant assumption of “Black Indians” came as a result of Native Americans mixing with runaway slaves screams that if it wasn’t for the Europeans bringing the Africans as a labor force then there wouldn’t be any Black Indians.Maybe as I continue to read his research will take him further than European colonization but I doubt it.****Update****So I’m now halfway through the book and it’s more of the same. The author gives no proof that the “Black Indians” are the offspring of African and Native American intermingling. It’s pretty much they were dark skinned so they had to be runaway Africans from nearby plantations. However, the indigenous (not Native) people of America have always been dark skinned prior to European colonization. Just look at Columbus’s description of Indians when he arrived. Look at De Soto naming an Indian chief in Alabama Tuskaloosa which translates to “Black Warrior” look at the River that flows through the current city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama that’s named Black Warrior River. The river also flows through a Mound compound. Native Americans have no knowledge of the mounds and admit that they were there when they arrived.

A not well known rich history of people of colour and the American Indian. A Must Read!!

Explains the native American heritage and culture. The pictures are awesome gives a visual of what the natives really look like. Very clear the natives were already here in the Americas..

I have read this book through and the lack of footnoting is a serious indication that Mr. Katz' political and racist views have colored the content of his subject matter. He suggests that Edwin McCabe, a Republican running for governor of the state of Oklahoma, was denied this office by his fellow Republicans. If one loses an election, it isn't a party who denies one a political office, it is the voters. Edwin McCabe was helped to win his elections by his fellow Republicans. It was a defeat by the Democrats who were heavy into the Klan and who created the poll tax and the literacy test to deny Blacks the right to vote ---- a very racists political party at the turn of the 20th century.Another error Mr. Katz makes is that the Spanish empire in what is now Mexico did not "hire" Indians to settle along the border between the New Spain and what became Texas, it was the Spanish "emperor" who allowed the Moses and Stephen Austin 500 Colonists to settle along that border to act as a buffer against the Apache Indians who were constantly raiding into the Spanish villages along the border. Moses Austin made a written agreement with the Spanish leadership and 500 families settled along the border between what became Mexico and Texas.Mr. Katz uses language throughout that was non existent in the time about which he is commenting-----For example, on page 172, he says, "When the Indian territory became Oklahoma it lurched from a possible haven for people of color to another white supremacist state." McCabe was the Moses Austin of his time as he settled more than 137,000 Blacks in Oklahoma Territory by 1910. It was the Democrats who did not want to see Oklahoma become a diverse state of "many colors" yet Mr. Katz does not state that fact.This book is more fiction than fact and is politically slanted to the new Progressive Socialist Democrat political view------a kind of "rewriting history"---as the current socialists know they must do if they are to destroy the real history of this nation. The bibliography at the back of this book was no doubt books from which Mr. Katz drew some of his information but then skewed it in a way to meet his purpose. I think he should read more diverse books on his subject before he writes what he calls a "history" of anything. I discount this book completely as a book true to history. It should be classified more realistically as historical fiction.

I was really looking forward to reading this book. At last, I thought, someone has made a serious study showing the links between African and Native American roots. Alas, whilst the links are mentioned, there is very little documentary evidence in the book. This work could have been so much better if the author had included paragraph and page references to the quotes mentioned.

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They say history is written by the victors which is why this book has never been written before. It details the history of black and Native American people and how they created their own life as a people successfully. Which is not the way the general US public would like to see their own Hollywood invented history.

GREAT BOOK, THANK-YOU ELAINE

A must for all brothers and sister who have woken up out of sleep