Biracial Native American Women Describe The Racism They Experience Growing Up

Kamau Franklin discusses the 'cultural appropriation' and the relationship between Blacks and Native Americans with guests Yonasda Lonewolf and Chenae Bullock.

[jh]

Her mom is FULL blood Lakota....her dad AFRICAN is that hard to get? Is it impossible? Why should she choose sides? That's like saying "screw you mom, I'm JUST black!"

Why cant she honor her father AND her moms culture?

We need to stop being so closed minded and get the mentality that Black people with a Native American blood parent CAN happen. I went to school with a girl that had a Navajo mother and a African American dad.

It does happen! Smh.

People can believe in aliens from other planets and stuff, but a person with a Native American parent and a African American parent....NOT possible!

As far as skin color goes...MEANS NOTHING! All natives do not have to be light skin with straight hair! Heard of Genetics? Her father is Black! Is she supposed to come out white? Come on!

People of all races come in ALL complexions!

[Sagebigmountain]

I love seeing Afro indigenous representation🧡 we come in all colors 🔥🪶

[shaniqua_marie]

OK. I was reading through the comments and most of them were about the tone of their skin and how they can’t be Native American because it’s to dark. WELL, my mother is FULL Native American and my father is FULL African American and my skin tone is still dark. I’m from the Umatilla reservation in Mission Oregon, I know my language, my culture and I’m enrolled to my tribe(have been since I was born) YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE COMPLETELY FREAKING LIGHTSKINNED TO BE MIXED PEOPLE. My skin tone may be darker than other Indigenous people but you will still catch me yelling “NATIVE PRIDE”. Why? Because that’s who and what I am🤗💜

[tiannaenas]

As a Apache & Pima women I don’t discriminate against black natives, white natives. We need to stand with each other and evolve and become one.

[somebrownguy]

Im 21 and I'm mixed, half first nation and half black but natives always tell me "oh you ain't native" and black people tell me that i ain't black. its hard not to feel alienated sometimes... lmao

[sydney]

They both look half Native to me, they’re legit

[telianutt]

The woman speaking is half native damn y'all need to do y'all research, just cuz she is dark skinned. She has a dark skinned father.. if u Google her, or go to her ig you'll see pics of her with her parents.. she looks like her full native mother.. damn ppl so ignorant

[cloudo]

My mom helped this man named Mario when I was a kid . He was disowned by his family, she felt sorry for him and he stayed with us . He was a good friend.

[victory]

Thanks yonasda she is the GOAT!! Her mom ms.lonewolf did a great job with her daughter. May she RIP

[nicoles]

Part black
Part INDIGENOUS..
WHY IS THAT SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND???
EMBRACE YOUR ROOTS SISTERS!

[alanmac]

This video has a lot of people in the comments feeling threatened.

[Angbwillinspireu]

Sister Yonasda Lonewolf's is an asset to our Nation. She actively fights and have gone to jail protecting her First Nation and Black cultures. Her mother Wauneta Lonewolf, activist, writer, healer (counseler), of the Ogalala Lakota tribe, was 100% Native; her daughter Yonasda Lonewolf's(raised on Ogalala Lakota lands by her maternal family) father was a Black activist from New York. Both parents HEAVILY influenced her life. Read her story, she wrote a book and documents her life's journey.

[papakoko]

I'm black and native American Indian in the Narragansett tribe

[jenniferruip]

I'm a biracial native. I have struggled with this identity issue all my life, growing up in a white family and feeling like a freak because they don't understand my struggle. Even my own half brother makes up racist slurs against me. Society was far worse to me. Going to the center of where my native half comes from not knowing how to communicate with them either. I get along with only my younger half sister, she was there, she heard the people sneering behind my back. It was lonely, not seeing many like me. I'm half Cherokee and half white. I have my own tribe. No papers or documents needed. All apply.

[okaygee]

Folks hate the idea of dark skin and fair skin mixing! How dumb?!

The Atakapa-Ishak people in LA have dark skin and have intermarried with others; black and other native/first nation people. Are they culturally any less native?! No!

[geenemartinez]

GOD BLESS YOU SISTER. I enjoyed your interview. It is a big eye opener for history. It helps me to understand better the way that a lot of dark complected Native Americans were expelled from their tribes as Indians because they were classified as Black people because of the complection of their skin.

[goldcherry]

Queen Yonasda is amazing and powerful. I appreciate her for all that she does for the people. Bless her! She makes me proud.

[ninam]

I am Mexican and díne but all my life I’ve been excluded from both side of my culture because I do not speak Spanish or I don’t look a certain way it’s hard to know who u are as a person when ur people turn their back on u so you will never learn

[rae]

my great grandma is a very dark straight haired Natchez native American. most natives were darker in ancient times.

[dawudyelton]

beautiful; the same with my children(me-irish/puerto rican;my the tribe from south c) and we teach our kids about the greatness of having all 4 winds within them(which as in the beginning so shall be in the end, i believe) and let them take the best part for themselves and be proud of all their heritages; i'll love when the time comes where it won't be "mixed race" but the original race...inshallah