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 explicitly makes that statement.

Notable people of African-Native American mixture

Aaliyah in the year 2000.

Angel Goodrich, she was the highest-drafted Native player in WNBA history in 2013

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

Billy Bowlegs, Black Seminole historian and traditionalist

• William Apess's mother was part Pequot^[1]
• Henry Armstrong's mother was Iroquois^[2]
• Crispus Attucks (Wampanoag and Natick) was the first casualty of the Boston Massacre^[3]
• K. D. Aubert is part Native American^[4]
• Andre "Andre 3000" Benjamin is part Native American.^[5]
• Tyra Banks, through a DNA test confirmed she has Native American ancestry^[6]
• Estelle Bennett and Veronica Bennett (known as Ronnie Spector), of African-American and Cherokee ancestry through their mother^[7]
• Traci Bingham's father is Native American^[8]
• Christopher "Ludacris" Bridges is part Native American^[9]
• Bizzy Bone (Bryon McCane) has some Native American descent^[10]
• George Bonga (1802–1880), fur trader and interpreter in what is now Minnesota, son of trader and interpreter Pierre Bonga and an Ojibwe mother^[11]
• Billy Bowlegs III (Seminole) (1862–1965), Florida Seminole elder and historian^[12]
• James Brown was part Apache^[13][14]
• Jesse L. Brown (Chickasaw and Choctaw), naval officer, first African-American to become a naval aviator^[15]
• Monica is part Native American^[16]
• Olivia Ward Bush (Montaukett) (1869–1944), African American author, poet, and journalist^[17]
• Radmilla Cody, enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, former Miss Navajo, and anti-domestic violence activist^[18]
• Bessie Coleman, the first Native and African-American woman to get a pilot's license, was part Cherokee^[19][20]
• Joseph Louis Cook, a colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War^[21]
• George Crum (Huron), chef credited with inventing potato chips^[22]
• Paul Cuffee (Wampanoag and Ashanti), Quaker businessman, sea captain, patriot, and abolitionist^[23]
• YaYa DaCosta is part Native American^[24]
• Stacey Dash is of West Indian and Aztec descent^[25]
• Milt Davis is part Native American^[26]
• Rosario Dawson is part Native American through her father^[27]
• Valena Broussard Dismukes (Choctaw), author of the Red-Black Connection and other books on African-Native American identity^[28][29]
• Ramona Douglass is part Oglala Lakota^[30]
• Gary Dourdan is part Native American^[31]
• Maria Ewing (Sioux), opera singer.^{[32][33][34][35]}
• Mabel Fairbanks (Seminole), figure skater and coach^[36]
• Redd Foxx was part Seminole^[37]
• Vivica A. Fox is part Native American^[38]
• Meagan Good is part Cherokee and Taino^[39]
• Angel Goodrich, enrolled member of the Cherokee nation and a WNBA athlete^[40]
• Illinois Jacquet's mother was Sioux and his father Creole^[41]
• Alex Haley (1921-1992) had Cherokee ancestors^[42][43]
• Rebecca Hall is Sioux through her mother Maria Ewing^[44][45][46]
• Ben Harper is part Cherokee^[47]
• Aaliyah "Aaliyah" Haughton was part Oneida^[48][49]
• Dorris Henderson is part Blackfoot^[50]
• Jimi Hendrix was part Cherokee^[51]
• Leon Hendrix is part Cherokee^[51]
• Lena Horne was part Native American^[52]
• John Horse (Juan Caballo) (Black Seminole) (ca. 1812–1882), war leader in Florida, also leader of Black Seminoles in Mexico^[53]
• Langston Hughes was part Native American^[54]
• Earle Hyman (Tuscarora, Haliwa-Saponi/Nottoway) (1926–2017), actor
• Kyrie Irving, born to a Sioux mother, a NBA player that made the game winning shot in the 2016 NBA Finals.^[55]
• Michael Jackson had Choctaw ancestry on his father's side and Blackfoot ancestry on his mother's^[56]
• Shar Jackson is part Cherokee and Taino Arawak^[57]
• James Earl Jones is part Cherokee and Choctaw^[58][59]
• Julia Jones is of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations^[60]
• Lolo Jones is part Native American^[61]
• Susannah Mushatt Jones was for a time the world's oldest living person and according to her family had some Native American ancestry.^[62]
• Alexis Jordan is part Native American^[63]
• Eartha Kitt was part Cherokee^[64]
• Beyoncé Knowles is part Native American^[65]
• Solange Knowles is part Native American^[65]
• Sanaa Lathan is part Native American^[66]
• Bianca Lawson is part Native American^[67]
• Ananda Lewis is part Creek and Blackfoot^[68]
• Edmonia Lewis was of Mississauga Ojibwe-Haitian ancestry^[69]
• Mance Lipscomb is part Choctaw^[70]
• Amber Littlejohn is part Cherokee
• Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance (Lumbee), journalist and writer, adopted into the Kainai Nation^[71]
• Laura Love is part Native American^[72]
• Richard Mayhew is part Native American and a landscape painter^[73]
• Angela McGlowan is part Native American^[74]
• James Meredith (Choctaw), desegregation pioneer^[75]
• Leona Mitchell (Chickasaw), operatic soprano^[76]
• Scott "Kid Cudi" Mescudi is part Native American ^[77]
• Mwalim (Mashpee Wampanoag), musician, writer, and educator.^[78]
• Nicole Ari Parker is part Cherokee^[79]
• Rosa Parks was descended from a Native American slave on record^[80]
• Ann Plato (ca. 1824–unknown), tribe unknown, one of the first African American published women authors^[81]
• Charlie Patton (1887–1934), Black Cherokee and founding father of the blues in the Mississippi Delta^[82]
• Oscar Pettiford's mother was Choctaw and his father part Cherokee^[83][84]
• Phylicia Rashād's father was full-blooded Cherokee^[85]
• Martha Redbone, Native American Music Award-winning soul music artist of Shawnee-Choctaw-Cherokee ancestry^[86]
• Della Reese's mother was Cherokee and self-identified as such^[59]
• Salli Richardson's mother is African-American and Cherokee.^[87]
• Brytni Sarpy, of (Apache) and (Cherokee) descent^[88]
• Marguerite Scypion (ca. 1770s–after 1836), an African-Natchez woman whose family successfully sued for their freedom in Missouri^[89]
• Willie "The Lion" Smith (Mohawk), jazz pianist^[90]
• Woody Strode (Blackfoot, Cherokee, and Muscogee), decathlete, football player, and actor^[91]
• Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas is part Native American^[92]
• Billy Ray Thunder, bull rider and bareback bronc rider
• Chris Tucker is part Native American^[93]
• Tina Turner identifies herself as Cherokee and Navajo^[59]
• Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins is part Native American^[94]
• Kerry Washington is part Native American^[95]
• France Winddance Twine (b. 1960), sociologist enrolled in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation^[96]
• Joy Villa (Choctaw), singer and songwriter^[97]
• Amil "Amil" Whitehead is part Cherokee^[98]
• Mykelti Williamson is part Blackfoot^[59]
• Oprah Winfrey is part Native American^[93]
• Keke Wyatt is part Cherokee^[99]
• Melisa "Kid Sister" Young is part Native American^[100]
• Michael Zinzun (1949–2006), former Black Panther and anti-police brutality activist of African and Apache descent^[101]

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

References