Native Americans were the first people in the Americas

Some Afrocentrists claim that the native Americans were black, even into rather recent times. But all research and also reports from contemporary eye witnesses debunks all such claims. Here, for example is an interview with a so called "buffalo soldier", a black soldier in the US army. He tells that the native Americans of the old West had never seen black people before, and when they saw the black soldiers they called them "buffalo boys" because their dark skin and kinky hair, which reminded them of buffalos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdF7WOZ_uY8

Still today many European descendants in the Americas try to deny the genocides their ancestors subjected the Native Americans to. The deniers often try to blame Native American depopulation on epidemics and similar "natural" causes, or they try to diminish the genocide by claiming that Native Americans killed each other already before the first Europeans arrived in the Americas. They also try to apply so narrow definitions of the term genocide that it excludes everything except the Holocaust during World War II.  But as more and more research is conducted about the genocide(s) against Indigenous American the more hollow the denials sound. One of the books, based on several years of research, that thoroughly documents a genocide in America is "An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873" by Benjamin Madley, a history professor at the University of California. In his book he describes the brutal genocide that the American ...

Some Afrocentrists post images of so called "black natives" on social media, trying to prove that they were in the Americas already before Native Americans. But  many of those pictures are "black" (in the meaning of African looking) simply because the artists who made them (many times Europeans who never left Europe) never saw any real Native Americans, and had no real impression of what they looked like. Instead these artists modeled  their pictures after Africans who they often were more familiar with. If those pictures are compared with pictures made by painters who actually visited, or lived in the Americas, or at least saw real native Americans in Europe, one can clearly se the differences. Jus a couple of examples: A fantasy image of the Aztec ruler Moctezuma from a European book from 1671, 151 years after his death, compared with an image made by members of his own people just a couple of decades after his death. African inspired picture made by Johann Ihle 1...

About thousand years ago Norsemen from Iceland and Greenland visited, and built a settlement, at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland in Canada. Still today remnants of this settlement can be seen, with houses and even a smithy. Medieval Icelandic sagas do also tell about these settlers and visitors. At the same time Afrocentric extremists claim that Africans (or "black" people) have visited and settled parts of the Americas for hundreds, if not thousands of years. But still there are no traces whatsoever of such alleged settlers or visitors. No houses, no artifcts or other archaeological evidence, no iron (Africans have known about iron smelting and ironworking for maybe 3000 years, but no traces of any African iron working facilities or objects made of iron have ever been found on any archaeological site from precolumbian times in the Americas), no genetic evidence, no artistic evidence, no linguistic evidence.  L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site https://www.ne...

Afrocentrics often claim that black / African people have been seen in the Americas for centuries and have been depicted in art or mentioned by early European explorers. But most of these claims do not hold up for a closer scrutiny. Many of them are pure misunderstanding or even wishful thinking. There has even been cases of manipulation of texts or pictures (at least on internet).  It is interesting also that always when isolated, uncontacted Native American tribes are "discovered" in South America they are always Native Americans, never African or "black" (except for body paint). 

 Often Afrocentric debaters use historical texts where it is mentioned that some Native Americans were black, or dark, as some kind of "proof" that they were Africans (or of African descent), or alternatively Melanesian or Australoid.  One example is an often quoted sentence from a travelogue written by the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524, when he saw some natives on the Eastern coast of North America: "They are dark in color, not unlike the Ethiopians". Mostly they forget to put such a quote into any context, for example concerning ethnographic details. They also omit to mention when the same author talks about other natives among the coast as "they are a bronze color, some tending more toward whiteness, others to a tawny color".  Many ethnographic details Verrazano mentions do correspond well with actual paintings which the English painter John White made of natives along the same coast some 60 years later. He depicted the peoples as brow...

For centuries the cultures of Native Americans have been under attack. From the first European colonizers 500 years ago until now, native peoples got their land stolen, their livelihood destroyed, their freedom taken away and their cultures and religions being suppressed. Even as late as up to 1978 Native Americans in USA were not free to fully practise their traditional religious and spiritual ceremonies. Now their history is also under attack. During the latest decades certain groups among African Americans have started to claim Native American history, claiming that black/African people where those who created, or inspired the great Native civilisations in places like Mesoamerica or the Andes, or in Southeastern USA. Some of these wabocentric and Afrocentric groups even claim to have been in the Americas before the ancestors of the Native Americans. These claims have become a nuisance and have added to the burden of the oppression that Native Americans during so long time been subje...