Why Do So Many Americans Think They Have Cherokee Blood?

[Gründig]

Who knows. Some I'm sure actually have it. However, most clearly don't.

[Armenian Bishop]

Many Cherokees were held as slaves by Blacks in the US, so obviously there was interbreeding. A good deal of African Americans I've known have claimed Cherokee ancestry.

It was usually the other way around, many Blacks were held as slaves by Cherokees. Black Slaves even made an attempt to reach Mexico, during the 1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1842_S...herokee_Nation

[JosephK]

It was usually the other way around, many Blacks were held as slaves by Cherokees. Black Slaves even made an attempt to reach Mexico, during the 1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1842_S...herokee_Nation

Maybe that's what I meant... either way, my point remains (!). Thanks--

[Armenian Bishop]

Maybe that's what I meant... either way, my point remains (!). Thanks--

Yes that's true: Either way your point remains valid.
But my version is right: The Cherokees did have Black Slaves.
And, Blacks usually didn't have Cherokee Slaves.
It's not a question of maybe this, or maybe that.

[Profileid]

Norman Rockwell painted this picture of an American family tree in 1959, well before the era of white guilt. Obviously, the myth of Indian ancestry was already well-established by then.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Norman+Roc...-Tree_9_10.jpg

Interesting.
I think a lot of people might have one Indian ancestor from the colonial era. It just washed out. Look how much was lost within 3 generations.
A single native ancestor from 1850 would be undetectable now.


http://www.rootsandrecombinantdna.co...-not-that.html

[jingorex]

we had the same fairy tale growing up and even right up, in fact, to the point i was the first to take a DNA test just a couple years ago.

there were always stories of a great grandmother who was full blood native from one of the tribes.

turns out 0.1 percent of my DNA is native...lol! oops!

[Profileid]

we had the same fairy tale growing up and even right up, in fact, to the point i was the first to take a DNA test just a couple years ago.

there were always stories of a great grandmother who was full blood native from one of the tribes.

turns out 0.1 percent of my DNA is native...lol! oops!

how did your family take it?

[jingorex]

how did your family take it?

they took it with surprise and then they ignored it like it had never been mentioned.

my family is very polite...good possibility i was adopted. lol.

edit: also in as far as the original question of your topic on. 'why do they think that xxxxx' : i meant to say 'because they simply did not know and it is human nature to fill in empty spots in our understanding with fairy tales.

which is fine.

[Smitty]

Interesting.
I think a lot of people might have one Indian ancestor from the colonial era. It just washed out. Look how much was lost within 3 generations.
A single native ancestor from 1850 would be undetectable now.


http://www.rootsandrecombinantdna.co...-not-that.html

Yeah, absolutely possible. I'm not saying I believe every Tom, Dick, and Harry who claims it. But whether it's real or not, I don't think it's new, and I don't think it's in response to leftist propaganda that being a white American is evil.

[arkas]

Interesting.
I think a lot of people might have one Indian ancestor from the colonial era. It just washed out. Look how much was lost within 3 generations.
A single native ancestor from 1850 would be undetectable now.


http://www.rootsandrecombinantdna.co...-not-that.html

What part of America do people most often think they have Native American ancestry? The South?