An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

143, 145; Dakota Access Pipeline protests, xiv, 103; David Walker’s Appeal on, 45–46; Douglass
on, 51–53; Dred Scott v. Sandford on, 43; Ellison on, 30–31; as enslaved persons, 36; erasure of,
3, 31, 137, 150, 205n47; Federalist Papers on, 21–22; genocide of, xxi, 85; Indigenous
dispossession of, xv, 18–19; Jefferson on, 25–26; King on, 84–86; Malcolm X on, 91–92, 93, 95,
98–99; NdN popular culture of, 138–41; Obadele on, 115–17; Pan-Indianism, 37–39, 57–61;
against police violence, 163–66; policing of, 163, 219n13; in Poor People’s Campaign, 118–22;
racist sports team mascots and, 3, 84, 137, 140, 153–54, 156–57; Red Power movement, 110–14,
132–33, 165; reparations discourse and, 176, 177, 178–81; R-word and, 84, 150–52; SAI of, 57–
61, 67, 71; Sand Creek Massacre of, 102; “savage,” as term and, 152–53; survivance by, xxi, 168;
Tecumseh, 37–39; Tocqueville on, 28; tribal governance of, 77; violence against women, 141,
143, 144; white-passing, 141, 184–85; Wounded Knee Massacre of, 54, 74, 102–3; Wounded
Knee occupation of, 112–13, 132. See also Afro-Indigenous Americans; American Indian
Movement (AIM); Indigenous dispossession; Native disappearance myth; resistance; settler
colonialism; sovereignty; treaties; names of specific tribes and persons
Native disappearance myth: Black Americans on, 52, 68, 80, 94; general belief in, 50, 103; redface
and, 137; SAI on, 59; Tocqueville on, 28; Vizenor on, xxi. See also erasure; Native Americans;
“r*dsk*n,” as term
Native Lives Matter Movement, 164–66
Natives Land Act (South Africa; 1913), 180
Native Son (Wright), 106
Navajo and Hopi Relocation Act (1974), 130
NdN, 138–41
negro, as term, 22. See also N-word, as term
Negroes with Guns (Williams), 78
“The Negro Race in the United States of America” (Du Bois), 72
Nelson, Ralph, 102
neocolonialism, 127–28. See also colonial projects
nerd culture, 140
New Deal, 77
New Jim Crow, 28–29, 56
Newport Mercury (publication), 8
Newsome, Bree, 155
Newton, Huey, 124
New World descendants, as term, xviii
New York City, 91–92
New Yorker (publication), 30
New York Times Magazine (publication), 1
“n*gg*r,” as term, 147–48, 151. See also language (concept); N-word, as term
Nigeria, 6
“nigga,” as term, 147–50. See also language (concept); N-word, as term
Nike, 152
Nisqually (tribal group), 120
Nixon, Richard, 166
Nkrumah, Kwame, 97, 127–28
Noble, Safiya Umoja, 146
nonviolent strategies, 39, 78–79, 182. See also literary production as resistance
“The North American Indian” (Eastman), 72
North Carolina, 176
Notes of a Native Son (Baldwin), 105
Notes on the State of Virginia (Jefferson), 24–25, 26