Afro-Indigenous people

Not to be confused with Indigenous Black Canadians, who are descendants of historic Black communities rooted in Canada.

Afro-Indigenous peoples in Canada (also known as Indigenous-Black peoples) are individuals and communities of both African and Indigenous identity on the territory of present-day Canada. The terminology emphasizes survival and identity within a settler colonial framework, rather than a simple mixture of two ethnic categories.

As in the rest of the Americas, Afro-Indigeneity has a longstanding presence in Canada rooted in both the arrival of Africans to North America and their relationships with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples.

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