Books :

• "The Mis-Education of the Negro" by Dr. Carter G. Woodson 
• “African Native American History” by Jack D. Forbes 
• “Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage” by William Loren Katz 
• “An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States” by Kyle T. Mays 
• “Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom” by 
• Tiya Miles 
• “What You Didn’t Know About Your Native American Heritage” (Volumes 1 & 2) by Dane Calloway
• “Tracing Your Family’s Native American Heritage: Without Paying a ‘Guru’ by Dane Calloway
• "Tracing Your Family's Genealogical History by Records" by Dane Calloway
• “They Came Before Columbus” – Ivan Van Sertima 
• “The Half Has Never Been Told” – Edward E. Baptist 
• “Before the Mayflower” – Lerone Bennett Jr. 
• “African Founders” – David Hackett Fischer 
• The Destruction of Black Civilization” – Chancellor Williams 
• “Medical Apartheid” – Harriet A. Washington 

Documentaries & Films: 

• “Black Indians: An American Story” (2000) – Narrated by James Earl Jones 
• “By Blood” (2015) 
•  PBS – “African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross” (Episode 1 & 2)
•  "The Legal Erasure of American Aborigines" by Dane Calloway
• "They're not Teaching this In School" by Dane Callaway
• "The Biggest Deception In History" by Dane Callaway
• “Eyes on the Prize” (PBS)

 Archives & Databases :

• Freedmen’s Bureau Records (U.S. National Archives – archives.gov)
• Library of Congress - African American Collections
• African American Heritage Collection (Ancestry.com)
• BlackPast.org 
• Digital Library on American Slavery (library.uncg.edu/slavery) 
• National Museum of African American History and Culture (Smithsonian) 
• The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NYPL) 

Personal Lineage Research :

• AfriGeneas.org (forums and tools specifically for African American genealogy) 
• Census, Slave Schedules, Freedmen’s Bank Records (available through Ancestry and FamilySearch) 
• FamilySearch.org (free and includes U.S. Colored Troops records) 

Your Guide to find Niiji Owned Businesses:

 National, searchable directories 

• ByBlack (U.S. Black Chambers & AmEx) — free national directory + official Black-owned certification; you can search by location/category to export state lists.
   
• Official Black Wall Street (OBWS) — large discovery platform of Black-owned businesses (consumer-facing + services).
   
• EatOkra — the leading directory for Black-owned restaurants, searchable by city/state.
   
• BuyBlack.org / Naspora (WeBuyBlack successor) — marketplace/directories for products and vendors.

 Find local Black chambers : 

•  The U.S. Black Chambers (USBC) network lists local/state Black chambers; many maintain public member directories or will send you one on request. Start here and click your state/region. 

  State & city certified-vendor directories:

• New York (state & NYC): NYS MWBE program (directory via Contract System) and the NYC Online Directory of Certified Businesses.
   
• Maryland: MDOT MBE directory and open-data feeds listing certified firms.
   
• Illinois: BEP certified-vendor directory (with public search guides).
   
• North Carolina: HUB office with a searchable vendor database (state & some municipal guides)