ABSTRACT
Studies of African-Native Americans must continue investigating the realities of cultural changes that occurred between the diversity of Africans and Native Americans. The primary objective in studying African-Native Americans can be asserted as follows: to investigate individuals of blended cultural and/or racial African and Native American ancestry and the relationships that have been forged by and between African and Native Americans as universal in the Western Hemisphere. An interdisciplinary approach is particularly useful to the study of African-Native Americans because it is through the examination of multiple disciplinary records that the larger picture of African-Native American experiences can be revealed. For scholars exploring the study of African-Native Americans through American Indian studies or Native American and Indigenous studies lenses, liberal arts frameworks have been central to holistic analyses that characterize the fields. The chapter also presents an overview on the key concepts discussed in this book.
