We’re continuing Season 4 of Questions You Didn’t Ask with the second episode in our series: Sankofa & Solidarity: Uncovering Black and Native Legacies for Health Equity.

In this follow-up conversation, Niasha Fray and historian Dr. Alaina E. Roberts go deeper—confronting the political, cultural, and emotional realities of what it means to be Black and Native in a society shaped by settler colonialism, anti-Blackness, and historical erasure.

This episode unpacks:

🔍 The truth about Native American slaveholding—especially among the so-called “Five Civilized Tribes” 🧬 The complexities of identity and citizenship for Black descendants in tribal communities 🧠 How systems like the Dawes Act and blood quantum policies still shape who’s considered “Nativ ...