Image via the University of Windsor.
Books: Solidarities, Tensions, & Interconnections
James F. Brooks: Confounding the Color Line: The Indian-Black Experience in North America.
Mariame Kaba: Fish-Ins & Black/Native Solidarity in the 1960s.
William Loren Katz: Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage.
Tiffany Lethabo King: The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies.
Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro, & Andrea Smith: Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness.
Kyle T. Mays:
- An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States.
- Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America.
- City of Dispossessions: Indigenous Peoples, African Americans, and the Creation of Modern Detroit.
Patrick Minges: Black Indian Slave Narratives.
Mark Rifkin: Fictions of Land and Flesh: Blackness, Indigeneity, Speculation.
Alaina E. Roberts: I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land.
ARTICLES
Amnesty International: Black and Indigenous Solidarity Against Systemic Racism.
Erica Belfi: Native Solidarity with Black Lives Matter as Both Communities Confront Centuries-Long State Violence.
Image from the California Native Vote Project: Indigenous and Black Solidarity against Police Brutality.
Image from In Solidarity. A statement from the Center for Native American Youth.
Image from Cultural Survival, of beadwork by Wapahkesis (Cree/Afro-Diasporic).
Glide Church: Native Voices, Common Cause: GLIDE celebrates Native leadership on the 50th anniversary of the Alcatraz Occupation.
Image: Reverend Cecil Williams of Glide with AIM leader Dennis Banks.
Image: Greater Cincinnati Native American Coalition: Indigenous Solidarity for Black Liberation.
Ashoka Jegroo: Why Black Lives Matter is fighting alongside Dakota Access Pipeline protesters.
Image by Joelle Joyner (Black and Kauwets’a:ka/Cherokee).
Kelly Hayes: Where Movements Meet: Black Lives Matter Organizers Visit #NoDAPL.
Black Lives Matter with Indigenous organizers at Standing Rock. Photo by Melinda Lee.
Tiffany Lethabo King: The Black Shoals: A New Book Theorizing Formations of Black and Native Studies.
KPFA: How Indigenous and Black organizing pushed Washington’s NFL team to drop its racist slur name.
Nickita Longman: Distinct histories, shared solidarity: Two Black and Indigenous activists’ reflections on land, policing, and gender.
Image from the Seattle Indian Health Board.
Kyle T. Mays:
- The Forgotten History of Solidarity Between Black and Indigenous Freedom Movements.
- Words That Matter: Black and Indigenous Solidarity and the Right to Language.
- An Afro-Indigenous Perspective on Policing.
- Professor spotlights Black–Indigenous solidarity in new book.
- Representation and Black & Hip Hop Culture in Reservation Dogs.
- “I ghost dance over drums/my music speaks to the young”: Thoughts on Settler Colonialism, Contemporary Culture & Politics, and the Rise of the Indigenous Hip Hop Millennials.
- Indigenous Genocide and Black Liberation: A Short Critique of I Am Not Your Negro–with Love.
- Why We Need to Rethink Afro-Indigenous History in the United States.
- Descendants of enslaved Black people have right to Indigenous citizenship.
- See more from Kyle T. Mays at his website. Follow on Twitter.
Image: Demonstration by Cherokee Freedmen and their supporters. (ASSOCIATED PRESS).
Tiya Miles:
- Teaching America’s Interwoven Histories: The shared history of African Americans and Indigenous Americans is rarely taught. TT talked to Professor Tiya Miles about why we can’t understand American history without it.
- Native Americans and the Underground Railroad.
NPR:
- Young, Black Native activists say it’s time to appreciate Indigenous diversity.
- New Wave Of Social Justice Finds Black And Indigenous Activists United.
Image via Brian Bull/NPR.
Mary Annette Pember: Black activism ripples through Indian Country and beyond.
Roy Finkenbine:
- The Native Americans Who Assisted the Underground Railroad.
- The Indigenous connection to the Underground Railroad. (Radio).
Alaina E. Roberts: The ways Afro-Indigenous people are asked to navigate their communities: Two leading scholars discuss the complex relationship between Black and Native people.
Cedric Sunray:
- Are Louisiana Tribes Turning a Blind Eye to Racism?
- Indian Country Influenced by Attitudes From the Old South.
- Anti-Black Racism in Indian Country: Jim Crowfeather Lives.
- See more from Cedric Sunray here.
Image from tiplerteaches on Instagram.
Videos & Podcasts
Beyond #NoDAPL: Indigenous and Black Lives Matter. See Part 1 and Part 2.
Kyle T. Mays: see collection of videos and podcasts on his website, discussing Afro-Indigenous history.
National Museum of the American Indian: Youth in Action: Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Black-Indigenous Youth Advancing Social Justice.
Image from the Youth in Action event.
Other Resources
Black Indigenous Boy: a mental health zine by two Black Akimel O’Otham brothers.
Dark Laboratory: Black X Indigenous Media Ecologies.
Teens in Tacoma: Black and Indigenous Art Show.
Image by Mike Von.
