Yeah...and it's all further complicated because the continent's so big and the regional histories are all very different, so you can have folks coming from other parts of the US or Canada sometimes being honestly unaware of the depth of history of black/native interactions in the Southeast in particular -- it's not part of their own personal histories, and it's so often ignored in the mainstream texts and media that it's terribly easy to remain unaware of it. And even amongst urban Indians, the situation can vary immensely from city to city; there are some places where you hear of a lot of friendly cross-cultural interaction, and others where the de facto geographic segregation is such that the black and native communities rarely cross paths, and have absorbed a lot of the majority culture's messages about each other...

(And ha, lookee what I found I can do just poking about on the OpenID side! It seems I don't need to steal one of your codes just for the sake of having icon shininess after all. They only give you six for an OpenID account, but considering how much I'm not paying for it, that's more than generous IMO...)