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List of people of African-American and Native American ancestry
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This is a list of notable people of self-identified Native American and African-American descent. No claim is made that any of these individuals are enrolled members or recognized descendants of Native American tribes. For notable Native American people who also have African heritage, see Notable "Black" Indians, and the articles on the individual Nations. Notable people of self-identified Native American and African-American descent * Henry Armstrong's mother claimed "Iroquois" descent * Tyra Banks, took an ancestry.com DNA test that gave her a "6% Native American" result * Estelle Bennett, a singer in The Ronettes; of Cherokee descent through her mother *Veronica "Ronnie Spector" Bennett, a singer in The Ronettes; of Cherokee descent through her mother. * Christopher "Ludacris" Bridges (Choctaw) through a great-great grandfather * James Brown said, "I have this American Indian in me. Apache Indian." * Jesse L. Brown (Chickasaw and Choctaw), naval officer, first African-American to become a naval aviator * Don Cherry (Choctaw) (1936-1995), jazz musician of Indian ancestry through his maternal grandmother * Stacey Dash is of West Indian and Aztec descent *Bison Dele, Cherokee-descent, was a NBA basketball player that helped the Chicago Bulls win their 5th NBA Championship in 1997. * Milt Davis is part Native American * Rosario Dawson is part Native American through her father * Ramona Douglass is part Oglala Lakota * Gary Dourdan is part Native American * Mabel Fairbanks (Seminole), figure skater and coach * Redd Foxx was part Seminole * Vivica A. Fox is part Native American * Meagan Good is part Cherokee and Taino * Alex Haley (1921-1992) had Cherokee ancestors * Ben Harper is part Cherokee * Aaliyah "Aaliyah" Haughton was part Oneida * Dorris Henderson is part Blackfoot * Lena Horne was part Native American * Langston Hughes was part Native American * Earle Hyman (Tuscarora, Haliwa-Saponi/Nottoway) (1926-2017), actor * Shar Jackson is part Cherokee * Sarah Jeffery's father is African-American and her mother is indigenous Canadian. * James Earl Jones is part Cherokee and Choctaw * Susannah Mushatt Jones was for a time the and according to her family had some Native American ancestry. * Alexis Jordan is part Native American * Eartha Kitt was part Cherokee * Sanaa Lathan is part Native American * Ananda Lewis is part Creek and Blackfoot * Mance Lipscomb is part Choctaw * Amber Littlejohn is part Cherokee * Laura Love is part Native American * Richard Mayhew is part Native American and a landscape painter * Angela McGlowan is part Native American * James Meredith (Choctaw), desegregation pioneer * Leona Mitchell (Chickasaw), operatic soprano *Scott "Kid Cudi" Mescudi is part Native American * Nicole Ari Parker is part Cherokee * Rosa Parks was descended from a Native American slave on record * Ann Plato (ca. 1824-unknown), tribe unknown, one of the first African American published women authors * Oscar Pettiford's mother was Choctaw and his father part Cherokee * Martha Redbone, Native American Music Award-winning soul music of Shawnee, Choctaw and African American ancestry. * Della Reese's mother was a Cherokee woman * Brytni Sarpy, (Apache and Cherokee) actress and model * Willie "The Lion" Smith (Mohawk), jazz pianist * Woody Strode (Blackfoot, Cherokee, and Muscogee), decathlete, football player, and actor * Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas is part Native American * Billy Ray Thunder, a bull rider and bareback bronc rider whom has Native American heritage from both parents. * Chris Tucker took a DNA test that said he "likely" has some Native American ancestors * Tina Turner identifies herself as having Cherokee and Navajo heritage * Kerry Washington self-identifies as part Native American * Amil "Amil" Whitehead is part Cherokee * Oprah Winfrey took a DNA test that said she "likely" has some Native American ancestors * Melisa "Kid Sister" Young is part Native American * Michael Zinzun (1949-2006), former Black Panther and anti-police brutality activist of African and Apache descent See Also
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