Afro-Indian Question: Before We Get to First Peoples of the Americas

This is from a 2010 article done by Katy June-Friesen about researcher one Angela Walton-Raaji's personal experience in uncovering the topic of American Indian and Africans of the maafa (the kidnapping) tracing her family geneology and met with a few dynamics between the interactions. Many of the people darker than blue tend to conflate data in an effort to promote a paradigm or destroy another without fully unpacking the nuances that may affect their conclusion. We leave out assimilation because of cultural similarities, social interactions leading to marriage, some just having babies, escaping enslaved Africans and freed people seeking refuge, (the whole seminole experience and part of the "cherokee" dialogue that needs further study) and the most uncomfortable position of all out and out enslavement of African people freed and seeking freedom by American Indian tribes. Some for cultural absorption to get free and aide the closest ally they can and unfortunately also being exploited by native oppression. I personally have Indian blood in my family from the southern regions of Georgia and the Carolinas. I've been told Creek, Chickapee, Blackfeet and most importantly Seminole. But as you see none of these are one of the "5 civilized tribes" accepted by the Dawes commission. I will not say my experience is one thing but I will also not deny peer reviewed facts that we have so far or use my research or this research to say it speaks for everyone. Peace. Wellness. Oneness. Here is a link to see Katy June-Friesen's whole article on Angela Walton Raji's experience https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/an-ancestry-of-african-native-americans-7986049/