Was Crispus Attucks Native American

Answer 1

Crispus Attucks was biracial, sometimes called a 'Black Indian'. Contrary to popular belief Crispus Attucks was not simply black as people in his time and place defined it. Attucks was the product of the union of an African man who was an escaped slave and a woman of the Natick band of the Massachusett, Wampanoag Indians.

By the one drop rule African Americans claim him as black.

By the rules of matrilineal descent that the Indians of that region used, Attucks would be considered an Indian because he was the son of one of their women.

Answer 2

Crispus Attucks was identified by contemporaneous writers as of mixed Native and African-American heritage. His native ancestry was Wampanoag through his mother who was a Mashpee Wampanoag, he was also a descendent of John Auttuck a "Natick" (this term was used for Wampanoag/Massachusett speakers from the Natick area), who was among a group of Native Christian converts who were executed in 1676 by the English as suspected sympathisers with the Wampanoag-led forces of Metacom (or King Philip) which launched a series of attacks against English settlements in the conflict known as Metacom's War or King Philip's War in 1675-1676.