ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how and why, “Black Indians was the first popular treatment of black-native interrelations and identities. It was not, however, the first important publication on this topic. Before Katz entered the field, and as early as the 1920s and 1930s, African American studies scholars and, later, Native American studies scholars, were delving into this subject area and producing substantial work. While this essay is not intended to be a comprehensive literature review, we do seek to briefly situate scholarship at the black-native nexus in the intellectual genealogy to which it belongs.”
