An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

political entrepreneurs, 206n67
Pontiac (chief), 38, 60
Poor People’s Campaign, 117–22
popular culture: collaboration in, 157–58; cultural appreciation in, 135, 138, 157; cultural
appropriation in, 28, 134–38, 155, 157; defined, 139; female hypersexualization in, 141–45; of
NdN, 138–41; sports team mascots, 3, 84, 137, 140, 153–57; use of racist language in, 84, 146–
53
popular sovereignty, xv. See also sovereignty
Potawatomis, 37
“The Powers Necessary to the Common Defense Further Considered” (Federalist Paper No. 24), 21–
22
Pratt, Richard Henry, 70
Prince, Abijah, 10–11
Prince, Lucy Terry, 10–12
Principal Chiefs Act (1970), 189
prison abolitionism, 164, 166, 185, 221n39. See also abolitionism
prison industrial complex, 56, 185, 221n39. See also convict leasing system; prison abolitionism
Progressive Era, 51, 55
property. See land (concept); slavery
protests: Alcatraz occupation, 109; fish-ins, 109, 118, 121; Longest Walk, 125; Poor People’s
Campaign, 117–22; sit-ins, 109; at Standing Rock, xiv, 103; Wounded Knee occupation, 112–13,
132. See also resistance; names of specific movements
Public Enemy (band), 82
Puyallup (tribal group), 120
Quakers, 12–13
Quarterly Journal of the Society of American Indians (publication), 60
queer positionality, 163, 164, 183, 218n10
Race for Profit (Taylor), 180
racial capitalism, xv–xvi, 28, 88–89, 99, 133, 140, 220n30, 221n32. See also capitalism; racism;
settler colonialism; slavery; sports team mascots
racial hierarchy, xviii–xix, 18–19, 23, 25, 84. See also racism
racial patriarchy, 48
racism: of blackface, 134, 137–38; cross-burning, 78, 80; cultural appropriation, 28, 134–38, 143,
153–54, 155, 157; David Walker’s Appeal on, 26, 45–46; definition of, 153; in federal policies,
77–78; of financial institutions, 180, 181, 220n30; Freedmen of the Five Tribes and, 186–92;
Kendi on ideas of, 12, 135; King on roots of, 83–84; lynchings, 68; New Deal policies and, 77; of
“playing Indian,” 84, 134, 137, 153–54; in policing, 160–63, 219n13; in South Africa, 104, 130–
31, 169, 171–72, 180, 215n72; sports team mascots, 3, 84, 137, 140, 153–57; through language,
84, 146–53; UN declaration on, 171, 172; of white liberals, 85, 168–70. See also antiblackness;
anti-Indigenous; Black Americans; Native Americans; racial capitalism; racial hierarchy; settler
colonialism; white supremacy
“radical black dignity,” 32, 81–82, 83, 99. See also Black Americans; self-determination
radical ethnic nationalism, as phrase, 109
radical resurgence, as phrase, 179
Ransby, Barbara, 218n10
rap, 137–38, 147. See also music
“r*dsk*n,” as term, 84, 150–52. See also language (concept)
Reagan, Ronald, 130
Reconstruction, 31–32, 51, 53, 72