This presentation will examine the evolution of the Parliament of the World's Religions with regard to Africana and Indigenous participation. The first convening of the Parliament in Chicago in 1893 reflected the increasing bias against Africana and Indigenous populations in late nineteenth-century America. From the African American community, only Frederick Douglass and Benjamin William Arnett spoke. No American Indian representatives were invited, and an academic anthropologist presented a paper on their religious traditions. Africana and Indigenous leaders have featured prominently in the recent meetings of the Parliament. In 1999 the Parliament met in Capetown, South Africa, with Nelson Mandela as a keynote speaker. In 2009 the convening in Melbourne, Australia, featured numerous Australian aboriginal speakers as well as American Indian speakers.