Black Indians are Native American people of African American heritage, or person of African American descent with strong cultural ties to Native American communities.
Buffalo Soldiers, 1890. The nickname was given to the "Black Cavalry" by the Native American tribes they fought.
Diana Fletcher (b. 1838), a Black Seminole who was adopted into the Kiowa tribe
Portrait of a Navajo woman c. 19th century.
John Horse, a Black Seminole
Radmilla Cody
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Radmilla A. Cody is a Navajo model, singer, and anti-domestic violence activist who was the 46th Miss Navajo from 1997 to 1998.
Black Indians in the United States
…Band of Luiseño Indians), professional basketball player; the first Native American man to earn a basketball scholarship at a Pac-12 Conference school. Radmilla Cody (Diné), 46th Miss Navajo Nation (1998), traditional singer, enrolled member of the Navajo Nation with African-American ancestry, first bi-racial Miss…
Radmilla Cody sings The Star-Spangled Banner in Navajo at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida (2002)
Radmilla Cody signing autographs at the Navajo Arts and Crafts Enterprise in Window Rock, Arizona.