Few aspects of American History are more deserving of historians’ attention__yet few have been more neglected by them__than the encounters of the black man and the Native American, the two major victims in the monumental tragedy perpetrated by the white man during his conquest of North America.  In this encounter, Blacks and Native Americans interacted in a multitude of ways__most frequently as allies and collaborators against the common oppressor, but occasionally as adversaries, the often unwitting agents of the white man’s power politics…