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8. Banjo was appropriated from SE Indian Tribes in US - Choctaw, Chickasaw, and I think Seminole

Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World - The NA influence in popular music including the NA roots of early pioneers of the blues and jazz and how NA helped define the evolution of the folk-rock era that took hold in the 1960's & 1970's.

RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World reveals the untold story of the Native American influence on popular music. The film travels deep into the South, guided by Pura Fe (Tuscarora/Taino), Alvin Youngblood Hart and Cyril Neville (Choctaw) bringing to light a missing chapter in our history books: How Indigenous music was part of the very fabric of American popular music from the beginning, but the Native American contribution was left out of the story, until now.

It's easy to confuse the banjo with slavery but actually the original slaves in the country were NA tribal men who kept running away from the plantations. Finally slavers took the tribal men to the Caribbean where they were brutally treated.

Blacks, who were brought to the South, ran away and mated with the NA women who then had mixed children. It's why to this day that blacks from SE US claim NA blood from the various tribes in the area.

The NA women were/are accomplished musicians who play the banjo in their indigenous music.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble:_The_Indians_Who_Rocked_the_World

https://www.rumblethemovie.com/home

Highly recommended movie