List of people of African-American and Native American ancestry

This is a list of notable people that are a mixture of African American and Native American. No claim is made that any of these individuals are enrolled members of Native American tribes, unless their entry explicits makes that statement.

Notable people of African-Native American mixture

Radmilla Cody singing "The Star-Spangled Banner in Navajo at the Kennedy Space Center, 2010

Billy Bowlegs, Black Seminole historian and traditionalist

• William Apess, mother was part Pequot^[1]
• Henry Armstrong, mother was Iroquois^[2]
• Monica is part Native American^[3]
• Crispus Attucks, was Wampanoag and Natick.^[4] He was the first casualty of the Boston Massacre
• K. D. Aubert is part Native American^[5]
• Andre "Andre 3000" Benjamin is part Native American.^[6]
• Traci Bingham, father is Native American ^[7]
• Christopher "Ludacris" Bridges, is part Native American^[8]
• Bizzy Bone (Bryon McCane) has some Native American descent.^[9]
• George Bonga, (1802–1880), fur trader and interpreter in what is now Minnesota, son of trader and interpreter Pierre Bonga and an Ojibwe mother^[10]
• Billy Bowlegs III (1862–1965), Florida Seminole elder and historian^[11]
• James Brown was part Apache.^[12][13]
• Jesse L. Brown, naval officer, first African-American to become a naval aviator
• Olivia Ward Bush (1869–1944), African American-Montaukett author, poet, and journalist^[14]
• Radmilla Cody, enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, former Miss Navajo, and anti-domestic violence activist^[15]
• Bessie Coleman, she is the first Native American woman to get a pilot license. Coleman was part Cherokee^[16][17]
• Joseph Louis Cook, a Colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.^[18]
• George Crum (Huron), chef credited with inventing potato chips.^[19]
• YaYa DaCosta is part Native American^[20]
• Stacey Dash, is of West Indian and Aztec descent^[21]
• Milt Davis is part Native American ^[22]
• Rosario Dawson, is part Native American through her father.^[23]
• Ramona Douglass, is part Oglala Lakota^[24]
• Gary Dourdan part Native American^[25]
• Maria Ewing, opera singer, partly African-American and Sioux.^{[26][27][28][29]}
• Mabel Fairbanks (Seminole), figure skater and coach^[30]
• Redd Foxx, part Seminole^[31]
• Vivica A. Fox, is part Native American ^[32]
• Meagan Good, is part Cherokee and Taino ^[33]
• Angel Goodrich, enrolled member of the Cherokee nation, in the WNBA^[34]
• Illinois Jacquet, Mother was Sioux and father Creole.^[35]
• Alex Haley (1921-1992), had Cherokee ancestors.
• Rebecca Hall, Sioux through her mother^[36][37][38]
• Ben Harper, is part Cherokee^[39]
• Aaliyah "Aaliyah" Haughton, was part Native American^[40][41]
• Dorris Henderson, part Blackfoot^[42]
• Jimi Hendrix, was part Cherokee^[43]
• Leon Hendrix, is part Cherokee^[43]
• Lena Horne was part Native American^[44]
• John Horse (Juan Caballo) (ca. 1812–1882), Black Seminole war leader in Florida, also leader of Black Seminole in Mexico^[45]
• Langston Hughes, was part Native American ^[46]
• Michael Jackson, had Choctaw ancestry on his father's side and Blackfoot ancestry on his mother's.^[47]
• Shar Jackson, is part Cherokee and Taino/Arwak^[48]
• James Earl Jones, part Cherokee and Choctaw^[49][50]
• Julia Jones, of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribe ^[51]
• Lolo Jones, is part Native American^[52]
• Alexis Jordan, is part Native American^[53]
• Eartha Kitt, part Cherokee^[54]
• Beyoncé Knowles, is part Native American^[55]
• Solange Knowles, is part Native American^[55]
• Sanaa Lathan, part Native American^[56]
• Bianca Lawson, is part Native American ^[57]
• Ananda Lewis, is part Creek and Blackfoot^[58]
• Edmonia Lewis, Mississauga Ojibwe-Haitian^[59]
• Mance Lipscomb is part Choctaw^[60]
• Amber Littlejohn, part Cherokee
• Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance (Lumbee), journalist and writer, adopted into the Kainai Nation^[61]
• Laura Love, is part Native American^[62]
• Richard Mayhew, is an Afro-Native American landscape painter.
• Angela McGlowan, is part Native American^[63]
• James Meredith (Choctaw), desegregation pioneer^[64]
• Leona Mitchell (Chickasaw), operatic soprano^[65]
• Scott "Kid Cudi" Mescudi, is part Native American ^[66]
• Nicole Ari Parker, part Cherokee^[67]
• Rosa Parks, descended from a Native American slave on record^[68]
• Ann Plato (ca. 1824–unknown), tribe unknown, one of the first African American published women authors^[69]
• Charlie Patton (1887–1934), Black Cherokee and founding father of the Blues in the Mississippi Delta^[70]
• Oscar Pettiford, Mother was Choctaw and father part Cherokee.^[71][72]
• Phylicia Rashād, father was full-blooded Cherokee^[73]
• Nahshon Ratcliff, (b. 1978) Actor, Writer is part Native American^[74]
• Martha Redbone, Native American Music Award-winning Soul music of Shawnee-Choctaw-Cherokee ancestry ^[75]
• Della Reese, self-identified Cherokee descent^[50]
• Marguerite Scypion (ca. 1770s–after 1836), an African-Natchez whose family successfully sued for their freedom in Missouri ^[76]
• Will Smith - part Native American
• Woody Strode (Blackfoot, Cherokee, and Muscogee), decathlete, football player, and actor.^[77]
• Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, is part Native American^[78]
• Chris Tucker, part Native American ^[79]
• Tina Turner, identified as Cherokee and Navajo^[50]
• Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, is part Native American ^[80]
• Kerry Washington, is part Native American^[81]
• Raymond Two Hawks Watson, an Activist is of Narragansett heritage
• France Winddance Twine (b. 1960) enrolled Muscogee (Creek) Nation sociologist^[82]
• Amil "Amil" Whitehead, is part Cherokee^[83]
• Mykelti Williamson, part Blackfoot^[50]
• Oprah Winfrey, part Native American ^[79]
• Keke Wyatt, part Cherokee ^[84]
• Melisa "Kid Sister" Young, is part Native American^[85]
• Michael Zinzun (1949–2006), former Black Panther and anti-police brutality activist of African and Apache descent^[86]

See also

• African American
• African American Lives, PBS miniseries with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., focusing on African American genealogy
• Black Indians in the United States
• List of people of self-identified Cherokee ancestry
• Louisiana Creole people
• Multiracial American
• Native Americans in the United States

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