Brown Skin doesn't just come from Africa. Even some African tribes will tell you they don't come from Africa or they migrated their! They don't even call Africa Africa. Our Ancestors knew who they were! Noone tells an Aboriginal Australian they really came from Africa. Plus open books it's written and drawn what the Spaniards saw when they voyaged the America's.

The five tribes who enslaved Black people-the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole-became known to whites as the “Five Civilized Tribes.” “These people are trying to assimilate and figure out where they fit into the racial hierarchy of the United States,” said Roberts.Feb 4, 2021

I just recently discovered that both of my grandparents are Cherokee. My grandmother has passed on and my grandfather is hanging on by a thread. I'm desperately learning all I can about my Cherokee heritage before he passes away. He did all the research.

I’m from Oklahoma also and I’ve been telling my people this is what we are I’m Cherokee and Choctaw Indian myself I’m very very dark brown and hair is super curly if y’all seen my face you’d know it’s time to stand up and get our land back from these people they know we thrive on our own and they know we never wanted to be integrated

ANY human being would want to restore and honor the burial grounds of their ancestors!

We were enslaved not slaves .

Once money came into play they just so happen to change their minds.

Conversation that needs to be had. People feel threatened because it changes everything.

Shows just how immature we'll call it most people are when they see darker skin indigenous people just because it doesn't fit the narrative you've been fed frightens you... Sad

It's also interesting how certain governments are supporting certain videos some of which are good some of which are cynical

This make me so sad man they basically destroyed and erased a whole lineage

As a Afro Indigenous person myself, all those American Blacks with no lineage to the Five Tribes who think they're entitled to our resources, land and benefits need to stay out of the Five Tribe's business. If any Afro Indigenous or Black person wasn't accepted as a Citizen it's because they didn't meet the lineage because they either have missing records or they don't have lineage, you weren't rejected because you are Black.

I wish conscientious voting was more ingrained in our societies. If every person in those tribes was told the facts and given an opportunity to have a say, the results would likely be very different. Many tribal members are partially white, black or Asian (through intermarriage in the US or admixture with mestizo people) from Latin countries yet partially black tribal members who look more black are the ones being rejected? RIDICULOUS.

reading some of these comments reinforces my belief that america has dumbed down so far they will never ecover

Y’all can’t tell me that ain’t pusha T in the thumbnail

How the F**k u gna tell tribes who can be a member....?

There's no black native or white native !!!! The only natives are indigenous Indian's!!!

Thanks for posting.

What native tribes owned slaves? From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory.

The 1863 Emancipation Proclamation only applied to States in rebellion, and did not legally affect slavery in Indian areas that fought for the Confederacy. All slaves in the United States were legally emancipated upon the ratification of the 13th Amendment on December 6, 1865, just after the American Civil War.[1] In practice, slavery continued in Indian territories. The federal government negotiated new treaties with the "Five Civilized Tribes" in 1866, in which they agreed to end slavery.[2]

It’s a lot deeper than race

Where is Amnesty international, Human right watch and United Nations??????

The Cherokee and Creek shouldn’t have ever allowed these pretenders in.

The term black and African American do not apply to the so-called black people they are the Aboriginal Indigenous of Turtle Island what many people call America you try to connect them to Africa because you're trying to disconnect them from their Homeland they're not black American Indians they are Coppertone brown the original people of Turtle Island in America you all are trying to keep the same bulshit up, it's not going to work

This lady and I are very different. I'm a black guy from Alaska. When I did all my dna tests it found a lot of native. But as an Alaskan, I don't think anything good would come of claiming and parading this lineage because where I am the natives are not looked at in a positive light. People see them as always drunk, leeching on the government, and criminals. You would do youself no favour to claim this dna. If I were her, I'd just be a proud black woman. No point in taking on an additional set of negative stereotypes. That is like being have gypsy and half jew, no where in the world you could go without people hating you. She should keep this a secret.

If you were born and member of a certain clan, clan chief can't just wake up and exclude your membership and that what happened to this community. In Canada 🇨🇦 there are meitis ( white and native offerings) and they have FULL INDIAN STATUS

😂 WAIT A MINUTE....? I thought you all were the "original jewish" people also. I bet if we ever make it to Mars you are going to say you were the original Martians. IT JUST NEVER ENDS with you goofballs.

American Indian blood runs through my family’s veins and we are still considered black people when you go to the doctor with a rare blood type look it up and it’s for American Indian ahhh my grandmother skin colors is black just saying and where I am from is far along where the croaton sigh was found if that’s even what really happen at this point who knows every thing is all mixed up jumbled up but all we have is our grandparents and one great one if you have that left I would advised for you all to get a ancestry test done just not in the united stated it’s corrupt and it’s not gone do you any good listen guy everyone was having enter course with everyone Africans having enter course with American Indians Spanish having enter course with American Indians and whytes having enter course with American Indians everyone is Indian no you can’t be Indian without being whyte when it’s not true some colonies of American Indians were not all the same color don’t let people fool you into thinking that but now only a group of what they call natives are deem as Native Americans after the Spanish and others nations did the R word to people on this what use to be an island don’t play and I hope someone does challenge me come I’m from the state where with have lost tribes and from the state where Indian roots run deeper that that so call thing they call the river please don’t go there you cannot let someone else tell you who you are you much know because they have been telling us who we are for far to long who tells them who they are no one they do wake up

People will try to claim anything. Next thing it's, I'm part martian...

I am an actual indigenous Native American (NAVAJO & HUICHOL) never seen a black in my tribes.

Natives are not afro. End of story you can be mixed but native is not afro. We are our own beautiful race.

My ancestors are buried in Choctaw Mississippi land but the Choctaw nation won’t accept me

There were no black Native American tribes this is an insult to the actual Native Americans everywhere

Those of you screaming anti-black at the Five Tribes claiming the Five Tribes accept White five dollar Indians over blacks is BS, lol. Like I mentioned in previous comments, everyone rather they are Native, White, Black, mixed race, Afro Indigenous, Freedmen etc. has to meet the enrollment criteria which various from Tribal Nation to Nation which includes each of the Five Tribes. The Freedmen weren't the only non-natives removed off of citizenship rolls, so were whites and others who were adopted or if they didn't meet new by-blood laws/enrollment criteria established by most of the Five Tribes, or if their family were found to have enrolled through fraudulent means. Was there some prejudice intent to remove the Freedmen and others off of Citizenship, there sure was some, but most of it was by blood reasoning.

Why keep labeling someone black when it’s not a nationality nor race y’all keep holding onto a racist derogatory title tht was given smh y’all not making any sense. White isn’t even a nationality nor race yet y’all keep labeling ppl a racist term yet y’all want racist to stop right then stop calling each other black and white

It’s interesting that Columbus called Blacks Indians because of where he thought he was. Now, many try to exclude the natives. My grandmother was Cherokee. We are Creek and Blackfoot also. The government didn’t even know Native Indians was in Alabama. However, I have come to the realization that world wasn’t as divided as it is now. Names of countries have been changed and divided. Thank you for this video. 💕🙏🏽✌️

Fascinating just Fascinating my grandparents were full blooded Indian on both sides. They never taught us about any slavery or africa. Im Choctaw and Seminole im currently reclaiming land that was stolen from my grands in Florida and Tennessee.

Sharing, Justice and Peace for All.

America needs to be brought before an international tribunal for crimes against humanity.

Intermixing with native Americans happened very early. Black people sailed to the Americas long before Columbus. Vasco Nunez de Balboa, made record of seeing “Negroes” when they reached the New World. The accounts match up with the reports from the natives in Mexico. Nicholas Leon, an eminent Mexican authority, recorded the oral traditions of his people and ultimately kept track of a key piece of evidence that Black people made it to the New World far before their European counterparts.

No outside organization, governments or rights groups has a right to dictate any Tribe's enrollment criteria, each Tribe decides their respective enrollment criteria. A few U.S. Supreme Court rulings in the late 1970's and early 1980's gave all Tribes the right to determine their own respective enrollment criteria. Tribe's use either lineage or blood quantum which varies from Tribe to Tribe unless a Tribe reserved a special roll for adoptees such as the freedmen among most of Five Tribes of Oklahoma and a few in the East.

imagine having a child born on independence day the year the war ended. what a representation of freedom.

DEE- LUSIONAL 😂 😆 😝 WE WUZ NATIVES NOW???

Those tribes 'sold out' the Freedmen!

We are not from Africa we are the first Native Americans we were here

Yes!! Thank you so much al Jazeera for covering this!! Awareness needs to be raised up on this for sure. Two of my Tennessean Grandparents claimed Cherokee nation!!🏹🏹Stand up Cherokee 👋🏼✊🏼✍🏼

The tribes have been intentionally whitened and Indians race has been changed multiple times.. 5$ Indians is what most of them are now

There where black indians also not freedmen. Copper colored people like me.

Removing Freedman from their tribe they may have legally been allowed by their sovereignty to do it but it did not make it any less racist. These tribes accepted our people and when it no longer served them disowned them.

I'm a Native here we loved those lands... Now we fight for them. 2021 restore our natural heritage soon as possible.

I never truly believe my dad when he said we are native and African American into I seen pictures of my great great grandfather 😪

Fight for your right way too go my black brother's and sisters one day soon no one will be able to stop you. ❤

If you claim this ancestry, you should be required to take a DNA test.

I am Creek. "Red" Native American's are true indigenous - we were the the first people in North America. Black Indians were formerly slaves that were forcefully brought here -- they are NOT indigenous. The Back story is that when slaves were freed they were alienated and unwelcome wherever they went but we Natives allowed them to share living spaces on our reservations. Though I do love and appreciate our African Americans, they do not actually share our Native identity.

We have been lied to for decades. It’s now our time to stand up for what is right!

If you look at me you wouldn’t even believe I had family members on the trail of tears!

2:20 "sovereignty is fine but it does not give you the right to discriminate against people" Pretty sure that's like EXACTLY what sovereignty is actually. Lmao. Its saying "the people within this group are my people and everyone else is a foreigner."

why would u use an african american as a thumbnail for native americans ? smh

These particular Native American tribes MIXED with African slaves. They are not Pre-Colombian. No matter how much they try to shout and pout. In the Spanish Realm, they would be considered ZAMBOS. Zambos are half Amerindian, Half African. That’s all they are. It’s not proper to call them “Black Native Americans” lol as if to say they were pre-Colombians.

This shouldn’t even be a conversation we should be having hoping all regain their status 🙌🏾✊🏾

Thank you for giving these folks peace , respect and a voice for future generations. I want to learn more of the relationship between slaves and native Americans any book suggestion ? Again thank u

Please do a DNA test.

You never had status on this continent because there was no black people on this continent until The Europeans brought them here from Africa.

Red natives need to hear this💯 look at how the red Seminoles are trying to exclude the black Seminoles ✊🏽

I don’t appreciate the narrative that the brown people “must” be ones they enslaved, brought from Africa but I do appreciate the more Melanated Natives getting their tribal recognition in e v e r y way🤎🙏🏾✨

It’s very interesting how this is being used against the indigenous people. Why wasn’t the story told with this video that many Natives was told their ancestors came across the waters? The indigenous people was already here. In Alabama the government didn’t have a clue at one time that “Natives” was in Alabama. It’s the Old World.

Are people gone bonkers, you can not destroy heritage, descendants, and family life lines without violating the most simple principle, Living! This is crazy to believe you can draw up a treaty to govern living and lifestyles? What? No!

TEACH THIS GAVE ME THE CHILLS.. TY SOURCE, ANCESTORS KNOWN AND UNKNOWN.. ASE

These poor confused people. I used to laugh at them. No I feel sorry for them.

Greed of what they don’t have anything and what they do have the government still takes 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️2:30

Wait... Are you telling me that Indians owned blacks too ? Well ain't that racisss

No such indigenous tribes as all black. It is in oral history of some tribes valances where taken in black, white, brown. In time some captives were adopted into that tribe. Thus a black mixed breeded with a full member. Thus half breed. Now if a black , adopted, mixed with a black. Not at all indigenous. Yet if a mix half black mixed with another tribe member, only quarter black . No matter how bad a few blacks try to claim they are indigionus, only half right. No such all black tribe has even been historical profen. Only in black minds

This video still was misguiding as far as making it seem that the natives who came over from Asia where here before the black indigenous people

Indians accepted blacks the Indians were indigenous a lot of people think that blacks are African Americans and that’s not right He didn’t need to come here on boats we were already here we are indigenous to this land we are the natives it’s just all messed up and I find it’s so frustrating because of the integration of five dollar Indians a lot of people don’t know the true history and it’s just frustrating

According to renowned American historian and linguist Leo Weiner of Harvard University, In Weiner’s book, “Africa and the Discovery of America,” he explains that Columbus noted in his journal that the Native Americans confirmed “black skinned people had come from the south-east in boats, trading in gold-tipped spears.

Thank-you

I guess this crosses out all kinds of things inconvenient to current internal US narrative. You should have seen the difference between what happened on my reservation Thursday and what happened today, on our new official national holiday. I am reminded of Veterans Day, when people around me make themselves scarce, lest they get caught wishing me a Happy Veterans Day. I call that holiday “Duck for Cover Day” given behaviors around me for the last 14 years.

As I explained in previous comments, each Tribe has a right to decide enrollment criteria, however each person or family who was removed from citizenship/enrollment has a right to challenge the disenrollment in Tribal Court to see if their disenrollment was a Tribal Constitutional violation. Most if not all Tribes have protections for their members/citizens as it pertains to enrollment/citizenship rights, if the person(s) was found to have been disenrolled by means of prejudice, greed or malicious intent, they will win back their membership/citizenship (such as the case with the Cherokee Nation and Freedmen). But keep in mind, each Tribes have the right to determine and change their enrollment criteria so it always depends on current tribal leadership and the citizens to decide.

This issue is far more complicated that this politically correct piece presents. Very typical for an Al Jazeera production. They are part of the MSM and always present only one side of a story; the far left side. And if there is no left side or right side of a story, then they simply present it in whatever way makes the US look the worst. Al Jazeera, "The Peninsula" in arabic language, (reference to the "holy" peninsula of the Muslim religion in Saudi Arabia) is an arabic propaganda machine, that used to be called the "Terror network" and used to do every single story it could to either make the US look bad artificially, or to attempt to sew seeds of divisiveness in order to segregate and separate Americans. All, in an attempt to weaken the US. This negative presentation is done in the classic style of an Al Jazeera story about American culture, complete with its impressive sounding narrator possessing an authoritative Continental accent that most Americans (who are notoriously easily impressed by accents) would believe worthy of trust. I am personally familiar with the story of the Cherokee Freedmen, and I can assure all viewers that this story is so full of holes, it isn't even worth watching. The story you're getting is so incomplete as to be a total waste of three minutes and forty seven seconds. It is a complete FAIL, unless you're the producer of the story and your only real goal is to create something to make people mad and divide them, in which case this Arabic propaganda news agency scores a win!

it's happening to me, they choosing not to Recognize Who we are. right mindere?

This makes perfect sense. Lmao

I think it would be up to the tribes to decide who would be a tribal citizen, if the tribes gave citizenship to the freedmen during the signing of the treaties I wouldn’t think it would apply to their descendants depending on the enrollment quantum or process.

If a nation captured, enslaved, or adopted a group of people. They forever. Are they a part of who they are.

Crazy… my granny told me like a few days ago on her side we are Chereeke or something called Maur Tribe.

Silly thumbnail pic to use for the video also lolz

Asians are not Indians believe that they from Spain and asia

I have recently learned that only 5% of Black slaves in North America (388,000) came from Africa between 1525 & 1866, the other 95% of Black People already lived in North America for thousands of years before (Native Indians from Asia/Mongolia) and (Europeans) arrived, see YT "(Copper coloured indigenous aborigines)." Fascinating documentation with evidence. The Europeans 1790 Census have Named the indigenous Black People in North America, as "(African American's)," (Black People that have Never in History been to Africa). Why?

"Racist?" If you're not of actual indigenous heritage, then you're not a member of the tribe.

🤣🤣🤣🤣video will have you believing the "natives" are Indigenous, and the Indigenous are slaves from a foreign land! 🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😅🤭

This video is cringe, they keep eluding to us be slaves that were taken in by the tribes, when in fact we (black people) are in fact the real indigenous of America. Before anyone else’s say other wise please do real research before you make yourself look like a fool. Webster Dictionary 1828 definition, AMER'ICAN, noun A native of America; originally applied to the aboriginals, or copper-colored races, found here by the Europeans; but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America.

The federal government needs to be cut out of the budget.

When Andrew Jackson was doing the things he was doing all of the Indian tribes that did not want to blend with the colonizer to subjugated, to be called Black and have been struggling ever since to maintain some sense of their identity greed make some people so non-intelligent

We wuz injunz n sheeit

My great grandfather hackless Johnson was creek Indian or freedman. He's listed in Oklahoma as freedman Indian in the late 1800s, a street in the town I grew up in, in Central Texas, is named after him. Rebecca Johnson and /or her husband is my relative. His mother Virgina hurt, or hoort, was considered full blooded Choctaw. I am genetically part North American and central ( Olmec Aztec) native.

It's disappointing that Native American racism all Natives mix African, Mexicans, and Americans. Doesn't get attention we went through just as much.

Istonko Everybody & Yesss So Happy To See This!! My Grandfather Was Choctaw & Seminole My Grandma Was Creeks & Afro I Have All That In Me. If U Saw Me Will Say I'm Just African American Lol Im A Hue Of Redish Brown In Complexion. My Hair Is Long Curly & Straight.

Words from the man "America" is literally named after about what he says he saw when he got here. "They are of medium stature, and very well proportioned. The colour of their skins inclines to red, like the skin of a lion, and I believe that, if they were properly clothed, they would be white like ourselves." - Amerigo Vespucci So what proof do yall have again?

Wow! I'm a. 50 year old black American and had to hear this information on this platform...Thanks for the great work!!

Read the Congressional Records regarding : The Annexation of Texas 1845. It specifically states that... "the lands between the Nueces and Bravo Rivers are boundaries between the Anglo-Saxon and Mauritanian races. Everything west of the Bravo belongs to the Moors and their Indian Associates". Associates are NOT land owners.

Tribes should NOT shun their people. I have pictures of my great-grandmother who is on the Dawes list as a FULL CHOCTAW INDIAN. And I am her great-granddaughter.