# Did American blacks look down on Indians as whites did?

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**Created:** [July 11, 2016, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-american-blacks-look-down-on-indians-as-whites-did/759653 "2016-07-11T14:19:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-american-blacks-look-down-on-indians-as-whites-did/759653/1 "2016-07-11T14:19:13Z")

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Or did they regard them as a fellow people oppressed by whites? Also vice versa, how did American Indians regard blacks?

(I guess I should have put Native Americans in the subject line but alas, the exigencies of maximum length forbade).

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**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-american-blacks-look-down-on-indians-as-whites-did/759653/2 "2016-07-11T14:32:09Z")

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Some Native American tribes had black slaves (Creek?), FWIW. I haven’t read much about it, just saw the connection on an episode of Genealogy Roadshow.

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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-american-blacks-look-down-on-indians-as-whites-did/759653/3 "2016-07-11T14:44:44Z")

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Google “tri-racial isolates.”