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Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage | 
 enlarge | Author: William Loren Katz
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Category: Book
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 505574
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Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.6 x 0.6
Dewey Decimal Number: 970.00405970096
ASIN: B0014JOLA6
Publication Date: January 1, 1997
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 Great reading June 25, 2008
This book is a great Primer to a lost heritage. It makes you want to go ut and find more info on the subject. You will not be dissapointed!
 A New Look at Old History November 11, 2007
The 'Preface' tells about the controversy caused by this book. Governments used racial mixtures to violate treaties (p.2). The existence of Black Indians has been banned from most school books and histories (p.3). Yet it is a fact in North and South America. This book attempts to correct the historical record. Katz wonders if the attacks on Indians was to prevent any alliance with Africans (p.7). Most Black Indians are found in big cities, not in rural areas (p.9). Popular knowledge has come from Hollywood myths, not historical reality (p.14). In effect, the history books lied (p.17). Chapter 2 reviews the failed colony of Roanoke, Jamestown, and Plymouth. The first foreign colony in North America was on the Pee Dee river (p.22). The African slaves fled to join the Indians and this Spanish colony collapsed (p.24). There is a quote from Bishop Las Casas about conditions (pp.26-27). [Does the story about working laborers to death remind you of Nazi policies (p.29)?] Slaves escaped their misery by fleeing to join Indians (p.32). Does this explain the attacks on Indians and their relocation to reservations?
African slaves would revolt when they had a chance, or flee into the wilderness (Chapter 3). Commercial rivalry leads to wars (p.42). Maroon settlements survived by a strong military defense (p.44). Spanish Florida was a refuge for runaway slaves (Chapter 4). The Seminole Wars were an attempt to capture runaway slaves, a problem for slave owners in Georgia (Chapter 5). These Seminoles ("runaways") later migrated to Mexico. After the Civil War ended many returned to the US. Chapter 6 tells of the Seminole Indian Scouts of the US Army. Chapter 7 tells of the exploits of Estevanico, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, and York (Lewis and Clark expedition). Chapter 8 skims over the relations between Africans and Native Americans over the centuries. The role of Afro-Americans in the early 19th century fur-trading is covered in Chapter 9. One reason Indian communities were driven westward was their harboring of runaway slaves (Chapter 10). The Plains Indians regarded both Europeans and Africans as the enemy.
Chapter 11 begins by telling of the Civil War among the Indians. The leaders of the Five Civilized Nations favored the Confederacy. This led to overturning existing treaties (p.143). Katz writes about the hidden history of Oklahoma. Is there some popular sympathy for criminals (p.155)? If political oppression creates poverty, and poverty causes crime, there is no mystery why some oppressed people turn to crime ("Robin Hood" in Chapter 11). Katz's story of "Billy the Kid" is not totally correct (p.158). There was nothing romantic about the Rufus Buck gang (p.163). Chapter 13 tells about the black cowboys who are missing from popular histories (p.170). So too the US Colored Troops (p.174).
This book is important in revealing facts missing from history books and Hollywood dramas.
A definitive account of a largely overlooked segment of this nation's population July 29, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
BLACK INDIANS: A HIDDEN HERITAGE provides a definitive account of a largely overlooked segment of this nation's population, returning to new audiences an outstanding treatise of antique prints, photos, and research. From the positions of black Seminoles and other tribes to Africans who found places to hide among the Indians, chapters trace the concurrent histories of black and Native American peoples and the many connections they have to this day.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
 observation July 5, 2005
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
My family also claims a mixed heritage (Afro-Euro-Native American). However, I have observed that many Black (as well as White) Americans emphasize their Native American bloodlines and ignore their respective White or Black bloodlines. In the case of Blacks this is because having "White" blood is sometimes attributable to the painful fact that White masters often exploited Black female slaves in ante bellum America. In the case of Whites I can only guess that admitting to having "Black" blood is less prestigious than being able to claim membership in a Native American tribe. I am by no means attempting to minimize any one's connection to Native America or the degree to which we are all bound to each other by blood or history. I am proud of this blended nation. However, we should acknowledge the joy and pain of all races in our common history. Simply, I wish that all Americans were as bositerous in acknowledging their respective Black/White, as well as Native, bloodlines. This might change the way we regard ourselves and each other in the present. Though not scholary, I think this book is worth the effort but romanticizes the relationship between Native Americans and Blacks....since many Native tribes in the east also had Black slaves.
 Hypocrisy and Racism August 13, 2004
10 out of 25 found this review helpful
Ironic, that an author who pays so much lip service to the evils of racism should write such prejudiced blather. Europeans in this book are eeeeeevil, greedy, lying, rapacious bigots. Blacks and Amerinds are noble, perfect, honorable, completely free of sexism, racism, etc. etc. etc. Add to that the ignorance he demonstrates with regard to Amerind tribes (and even how to spell US Marshal), and you have not only rank hypocrisy but slipshod scholarship. That non-Europeans have generally been slighted and ignored in 'mainstream' American history books is undeniable, but this book is worse than useless in rectifying that, burying nuggets of truth in an easily-dismissed slagpile of ignorance, rhetoric, and credulity.
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