List of people of African American and Native American admixture

06-05

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.

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Notable People of African-Native American mixture

  • William Apess, mother was part Pequot
  • Henry Armstrong, mother was Iroquois
  • Monica "Monica" Arnold, is part Native American
  • Florence Ballard, was part Native American
  • Andre "Andre 3000" Benjamin, is part Native American.
  • James Bevel, father was part Native American
  • Traci Bingham, father is Native American
  • Christopher "Ludacris" Bridges, is part Native American
  • James Brown was part Apache
  • Olivia Ward Bush, part Montaukett
  • Bessie Coleman, part Cherokee
  • Joseph Louis Cook, a Colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
  • YAYA DaCosta is part Native American
  • Stacey Dash, is of West Indian and Aztec descent
  • Milt Davis is part Native American
  • Rosario Dawson, is part Native American through her father.
  • Ramona Douglass, is part Oglala Lakota
  • Gary Dourdan part Native American
  • Redd Foxx, part Seminole
  • Vivica A. Fox, is part Native American
  • Meagan Good, is part Cherokee
  • Illinois Jacquet, Mother was Sioux and father Creole.
  • Ben Harper, is part Cherokee
  • Aaliyah "Aaliyah" Haughton, was part Native American
  • Jimi Hendrix, was part Cherokee
  • Leon Hendrix, is part Cherokee
  • Lena Horne, is part Native American.
  • Langston Hughes, was part Native American
  • Shar Jackson, is part Cherokee and Taino/Arwak
  • James Earl Jones, part Cherokee and Choctaw
  • Lolo Jones, is part Native American
  • Eartha Kitt, part Cherokee
  • Beyonce Knowles, part Native American
  • Solange Knowles, is part Native American
  • Sanaa Lathan, part Native American
  • Ananda Lewis, is part Creek and Blackfoot
  • Edmonia Lewis, Mississauga Ojibwe-Haitian
  • Mance Lipscomb is part Choctaw
  • Amber Littlejohn, part Cherokee
  • Laura Love, is part Native American
  • Magoo (rapper), part of rap duo Timbaland and Magoo, is part Native American
  • Rosa Parks, part Cherokee-Creek
  • Oscar Pettiford, Mother was Choctaw and father part Cherokee.
  • Phylicia Rashād, father was full-blooded Cherokee
  • Martha Redbone, Native American Music Award-winning Soul music of Shawnee-Choctaw-Cherokee ancestry
  • Della Reese, part Cherokee
  • Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, is part Native American
  • Chris Tucker, part Native American
  • Tina Turner, part Cherokee and Navajo
  • Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, is part Native American
  • Amil "Amil" Whitehead, is part Cherokee
  • Mykelti Williamson, part Blackfeet
  • Oprah Winfrey, part Native American
  • Keke Wyatt, part Cherokee
  • Melisa "Kid Sister" Young, is part Native American

See also

  • African American
  • Black Indians in the United States
  • Louisiana Creole
  • Multiracial American
  • Native Americans in the United States