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One Saturday afternoon, while viewing old Black and White Westerns on television, I wondered about the real cowboys of the 17 and 1800’s – their true physical makeup…their true character(s) and lifestyles. I wondered why the Black Cowboys were not depicted…or talked about…on TV. I wondered why we as youngsters cheered for the character actors like John Wayne, Randolph Scott, Buster Crabb, Roy Rogers, Tex Ritter, and many others who came to the rescue of the homesteaders. We cheered the cavalry with their trumpets blaring as they rode in to save the day. They saved the forts, the women and children, the towns-folk, and rescued the herds every Saturday and Sunday at the movies and on TV.
They also killed and massacred the Indians…The Native Americans…The Real Americans who have…(the Original Home Land Security) been fighting terrorism since 1492. They, the good-guys, killed hundreds of thousands in the name of posterity and the betterment of white America…and we cheered.
We as young and Black movie-goers, book readers, and television viewers cheered for the good-guys in the white hats who got the girl and rode off into the sunset…we cheered for the all-white cast of heroes and heroines. Were there no heroes of color? When Chuck Conners played The Great Chieftain Geronimo, we cheered. Charles Bronson characterized Chato…we cheered. We emphatically wept for the Cheyenne when they were captured and herded. Why did we not stop supporting the all-white cast of characters then…especially when we became aware that there was a major difference in the racial makeup?
Later on, in the 60’s, we got Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte of “Buck and The Preacher. They were two Black characterizations of pioneers who communicated with the Native Americans. Honest trade and respect for one another prevailed in this kinship. Brother Jim Brown was another role model that we all looked up to. He got the girl and some freedom too. Albeit, they would manage to find a way to kill the Brother off before the picture ended. Where was the commonplace Black Cowboy(s) – these heroes who taught the white cowboy(s) how to be cowboys? They taught them how to ride and rope…to steer wrestle and bulldog. Current and past rodeo shows rarely have Black Cowboy(s) along on their junkets…Black Cowboys had to create their own rodeo show(s) yesterday and today. The white west would have us believe there weren’t any Black Cowboys, only slaves…and we believed them.
They told us that Bill Pickett and Willis Meade (remember Lonesome Dove?) were white while they have been known to actually be Black…and we believed them. Have you ever seen movies and TV shows where the army troop and wagon trains use scouts who were always White? Did you stop and wonder how these white frontiersmen got to know the lay of the land? How were they able to communicate with Native American War Parties when all they’ve ever done was bring slaughter, ruin, and death to these noble people?
The Black and (so-called) Red Man were in fact, kinsmen! Did you ever wonder about your buddy who told you about his or her Indian relatives…their Grandparents…their Great-Grandparents? Many of us have passed it off as believing they wanted to be identified, as other than Black – they did not want to be Black. Folks would say things like – “they ain’t Indian, they just don’t want to be Black Folks cause they head is nappy and they wants to be like the white folks.” We’ve heard many claim to be children of the Cherokee, Seminole, or Black Feet. Many of us didn’t believe it…guess what? I’ve got news for you…we were wrong – dead wrong! To not believe them was another of the misleading paths and disenfranchised heritage denied to us by European descendents who claimed this land as their own. We as Black Americans have more of an Indian bloodline than you’d d think…or care to believe.
William L. Katz, the author of forty books, a scholar in residence at Teachers College, Columbia University, Consultant to the Smithsonian Institute of New York City, has done extensive research into the history of “Black Indians.” Mr. Katz’s work includes studies and writings on The Black West, Black Women of the Old West, and African American Slave Resistance. He has some enlightening information and data that substantiates our Red, Black, Asian, Latino, Native American, and White bloodlines.
The Old West, as told by White European American history books, refused to acknowledge the fact of Black contributions (except slave labor) to the West in America as well as other facets of nation building efforts and endeavors.
