This blog will stop using BIPOC as a term. Instead, we choose to simply differentiate between Black and Non-Black Indigenous people as African Diasporic peoples are unnecessarily excluded from Indigeneity in American Indigenous discourses. This also reaffirms the Blackness of other Black Indigenous peoples such as Indigenous Australians, Papuans and Melanesians who experience the existential realities of being Black and are institutionally/systematically racialized as such as well.
Black Indigenous Peoples:
African peoples sans Colonizer groups such as the Boer and Arab Colonizers. [TL;DR Though this gets complicated on the Continent itself. Priority should be given to disparaged groups left outside of dominant political structures in African states: Khoe-Sān Peoples of Southern Africa, the Forest Peoples of the Congo/Central Africa (pejoratively called py*mies), the Amazigh of the Maghreb and Northern Africa (pejoratively called Ber*ers) ] ; [Also, it is important to note that not all African ethnic/national groups identify with Indigeneity. Though all African peoples are in a sense Indigenous to the Continent, not all have adopted a politic of Indigeneity especially if they are the dominant ethnic group of their respective nation-state. Even further, settler-colonial states such as South Africa or the many settler-colonial states in North Africa have an added layer of complexity with the prominent presence of foreign settlers (The English/Boers and Arab Colonizers respectively). Example: In South Africa prior to European colonization, Bantu peoples colonized and displaced Khoe-Sān peoples but then both were colonized by Boer and English peoples. Both the Bantu descendants and the Khoe-Sān can be considered Indigenous in this regard but disparities still exist between the two groups as a result of Bantu colonization.]
African Diasporic Peoples. (This includes Diasporic Descendants of Enslaved Peoples, Afro-Creole Peoples (who also tend to be included in the group aforementioned), and Refugees and Immigrants from the Continent.)
Indigenous Australians (Mainland Aboriginal Australians, Torres Strait Islanders, Aboriginal Tasmanians).
Papuans of the Island of New Guinea.
Melanesians of Melanesia (literally, "Islands of Black People").
South Sea Islanders (Melanesian Diasporic Descendants of the Blackbirding Slave Trades of the 1800s).
Indigenous Austronesian Black Peoples of the East Indies [Pejoratively called Negr*toes: this includes the Andamanese (of the Andaman Islands, the Semang and Batek (of Peninsular Malaysia), the Maniq (of Southern Thailand), and the Aeta and Ati (as well as ~30 other ethnic groups in the Philippines).]
The Beta Israel, Bal Ej and other Black Jewish peoples.
If your respective people do not meet the following existential realities, then you would most likely be considered a Non-Black Indigenous people as far as this Blog is concerned (Colonizers DNI):
The people(s) in question are historically and presently racialized by Colonizers (both White and NB POC) as "Black" peoples.
They have been/are historically and currently harmed and targeted because of that racialization (by both White and NB POC).
Their Blackness has historically and presently been applied and used at an institutional/systematic level consistently.
They embody Blackness more often than not.
They have historically and currently reclaimed Blackness as an identity (both individual and communal), politic and secure mode of cultural exchange.
