For some reason when I’m talking to an American from the North East and the fact that I’m mixed comes up they always say they aren’t white they’re actually native because his grandpa once mentioned something about a Cherokee ancestor.
It’s always Cherokee, no other tribe but that one. And it’s always the whitest looking person ever, straight up 6ft tall blue eyed and blond guy.
I get it, I’m mostly white too, Spanish and Slavic. But even tho I’m not mostly native American I still look native enough that people think I’m Asian.
But when your ancestry has been so diluted over the generations… You’re not native. It’s not just that you don’t look native, it’s also that you don’t even participate in the culture.
Dude you’re just a farm boy from Philadelphia you’re probably more Amish than Cherokee, if that supposed ancestor is even real at all and not just some random claim by some of your ancestors to have a “right over these lands”.
Pretty sure it’s White guilt.
My family always said we had like a great great grandmother who my mom remembers who was 100% Blackfoot native.
Im legit the 2nd lightest shade of white for makeup.
Like I have a big patch of vitiligo on my abdomen and it’s barely visible.
I have green eyes and was blonde until I got older.
Yet supposedly I’m like 1/16 native.Now I realize physical traits like skin eye and hair color are only a small part of genetics. But my looks don’t offer any support for any native limeage.
So I do a DNA test. Not for that reason but just general curiosity.
Apparently I am 1% northern native American.
One. Percent.
That means it’s a straight up lie that I have a close maternal ancestors who was native.
Every now and then someone in the family mentions this mysterious native great grandmother. I don’t argue. I don’t say shit. But science says no way.
I’m mostly English with some Irish, Welsh, Scottish and German.
All the basic white peoples mixed in.
Not that I think you are wrong, but DNA tests dont necessarily paint the whole picture the way they companies selling them would like you to believe.
They’ve gotten better over time, but unless you have a bunch of samples you know for a fact are 100% Blackfoot (which already inherently doesnt make sense because the Blackfoot are a confederacy of different peoples), you have to just do your best to reconstruct what you consider to be “Blackfoot DNA”. People groups are also never static the way racists think they are.
In your case, for all you know, you could have had a few different Blackfoot ancestors who had offspring with French traders in the 1700s, or an English frontiersman in the 1800s. The offspring could have just been born and raised in the tribe and considered 100% part of the tribe, even if it turns out their DNA was 25% “Blackfoot”.