Expert: John Shea - 1/29/2006

Question
Over all the world,in which countries were people of the Negro race found to be native or indigenous?

Answer
Don
The answer depends on how you define "Negro Race" and "native/indigenous".
If you follow the traditional definition, -people with dark skin, tightly curled hair, etc. and the definition of "indigenous" meaning likely to have originated in a particular place tens of thousands of years ago, your answer would be "all of the countries in Africa south of the Sahara as well as Sudan, Eritrea."  It would also include some South Asian island-dwelling populations, like the Andamanese, for which there is some genetic evidence suggesting an ancient origin in Africa, but an origin on the order of tens of thousands of years.
If your threshold for "indigeneity" is much shorter, say hundreds of years, you would have to include countries in the Americas, Arabia, and South Asia, as well as Europe, to which subsaharan African populations were forcibly transported over the last thousand years or so.
For what it's worth, anthropologists don't really use the concept of "Race", Negro, Caucasian, etc. any more because our studies have shown that there is more morpological and genetic variation within such arbitrary groupings of people than there is between them.
Sincerely,
John Shea