Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-251) and index , The buffalo soldiers , Race and policy ; Native Americans, African Americans, and Jim Crow , DNA and Native American identity , Behind the rolls : Pompey Bruner Fixico , Charles Chesnutt's Mandy Oxendine , Personal profile , Sarann Knight Preddy , We heard it in the fields : the Native American roots of the blues , Poem: "Bones and drums" , Taino-African intersections : elite constructs and resurgent identities , Blacking out history , Racial legibility : the federal census and the (trans)formation of "Black" and "Indian" identity, 1790-1950 , Blended families, blended histories : documenting Black Indian families , Of shadows and doubts : race, indigeneity, and White supremacy , Community ; History and continuity : being Garifuna and Black Indian in the United States , Rotihnahon:tsi and Rotinonhson:ni : the historic relationship between African Americans and the Confederacy of the Six Nations , Claiming the name : White supremacy, tribal identity, and racial policy in the early twentieth-century Chesapeake , Race, citizenship, and sovereignty in the Cherokee Nation , The Cherokee Nation under siege , The Cherokee freedmen : Cherokee citizens by treaty , Creative resistance ; Taking leave, making lives : creative quests for freedom in early Black and Native America , Red, Black, and Brown : artists and the aesthetics of race , Lifeways ; What is a Black Indian? : misplaced expectations and lived realities , Afro-Bolivians revitalize their cultural identity , Native Americans in jazz, blues, and popular music , Red power/Black power : the people, the land, and the movement