Few people realize that Native Americans were enslaved right alongside the African Americans in this country Fewer still realize that many Native Americans owned African Americans and Native Americans from other tribes Recently historians have determined that of theinterviews with former slaves that were collected by the Federal Writers Projectpercent contain some reference to the interviewees being related to or descended from Native Americans In addition many of the interviewees make references to their Native American owners InnbspBlack Indian Slave Narratives Patrick Minges offers the most absorbing of these firsthand testimonies about African American and Native American relationships in the th century The selections include an interview with Felix Lindsey who was born in Kentucky of MvskokeAfrican heritage and who served as one of the buffalo soldiers who rounded up Geronimo Chaney Mack whose father was a fullblood African from Liberia and whose mother was a pureblood Indian