how many here have native american blood?

I have five gallons worth stored away. I keep it next to my giant Lima bean.

Yes, what is the deal that all these people claim Cherokee? The full bloods DO NOT LIKE whites telling their minute percentage. Cause lots of it was done as rape against their women, not real good to claim to be part of vast raping of these people now is it? So why not help them out instead with $$$ instead of donating to perverse political criminals?r

I truthfully can't answer that question, AC

Looks like I'm gonna have to give my Mom a call...

done

A+, both myself and my Sister (she thinks....)

Not all I am 1/32nd Cherokee and my family was Quaker, we took in some of the tribe that was starving on the trail of tears and some of them married.

My maternal great-grandmother was Cherokee but she had an Anglo name as did others in the area where I was born. John Ross, etc. so was not that uncommon for Cherokees to have Anglo names.

But I am very blue-eyed, blonde and none of it shows at all so I have wondered if it was true or if she was only half Cherokee and how she came to have Anglo name.

Genetically, I appear to be pretty much Dutch/Dannish but I was born in a region with a large Cherokee presence many years ago so it is likely true despite my lack of physical traits. I have never tried to register with The Cherokee Nation but did think about it at one time. If I looked more like one, I think I would do it but as it is, doesn't seem really practical.

My mother has got dark skin and Apache features, so has her twin brother, so I think that there could be some native American blood in there somewhere. Apparently - according to insiders - aliens like to target those of Native American blood.

I am 100% native American. My parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents were all born here.

My great-grands were legally married and is recorded in local historic documents. Also in several Family Bibles which also constitutes legal documentation in this state for that time era.

Illegal aliens or space aliens?

Natives and Aliens. Now we are talkin.

I've got a bottle in the fridge, right now.
Good stuff.
Much sweeter than Caucasian blood.

Grandma full blooded Indian

It is interesting that so many claim Cherokee heritage. We were told this also, but upon working up the geneaology, it turned out to be Choctaw. Maybe Cherokee is just used when the legend is passed down through the generations of the family.

Someone mentioned black irsih and black dutch. One of my grandmothers claimed her mother was black dutch. She had black hair and bronze skin. Her maiden name was McDaniel. When we did her geneaology, we found that her parents had a different last name and their ages would not have allowed them to have a daughter her age (they were only a few years older than her) so perhaps she was adopted or living with some family members. My grandmother is gone so I can't ask her. Black Dutch was a term used by people with mixed bllod who were ashamed to admit to native ancestry.

Note to everyone. If you have grandparents still living, ask them these questions, even if you aren't really interested in it now! At some point you will be interested in family history and you will no longer have anyone to ask!

1/4 ... my dad is half native american

^This post really pisses me off. ^

People can't help what any of their ancestors may have done. Even if someone came to have some Native American heritage because their ggg-grandmother was raped, it's not their fault in any way. Nobody needs your fucking permission to be proud of their Native American heritage, even if it's a minute amount, and regardless of how they got it. In fact, those who have ggg-grandmothers who were raped should be proud to claim them even more because of how they suffered. That is the ancestor they should be most proud to claim. Fuck you and the shame you are trying to put on people.

There was a lot of voluntary inter-marriage going on between whites and Native Americans throughout the early history of America. And plenty of white women were taken captive by the Native Americans and raped. Shit happened. There is plenty of shame to go around, but the shame is only on the person who wronged another person.

Half Mexican native and half BC native.

3/4 native, 1/4 sicillian

so according to my chart, you are the second most common blood type in u.s.
i am, i'll have to check too, o+ i believe.
no point to this, just obsessing on blood types right now. this is a new subject to me
thanks

United States
o+..........37.4%
a+..........35.7%
b+..........8.5%
ab+.........3.4%
o-..........6.6%
a-..........6.3%
b-..........1.5%
ab..........0.6%

George Washington Crump

now thats an unusual name scrumpy.

i bet there's an interesting story there.

Algonquin, I was told, many generations ago. My family has been here since the 1600's.

Im half Cherokee (Dad's from Tennessee) and 1/2 Irish (Mums from County Cork)

Me, too. Great-great grandmother was full-blooded Cherokee on one side, and great-great grandmother was full-blooded Choctaw on the other.

I've got the pronounced cheekbones, coloring, and the really dark, long, straight hair. Had a Native American artist ask me once if I'd sit for a painting for him. I didn't. But still.

comanche....actually shoshone

what a fascinating subject.
so many questions come to mind.
it seems that most interactions between indigenous peoples and europeans happened in the middle of the country, and not on either coast.
i could probably write a book on this.
have any already been written?

Many that could be....don't.
It may be hip to be native american now, but it wasn't 50-100 years ago. You didn't talk about it.

My girls (Great) Grandfather is George Washington. That's why she is from Pocahontas blood. Through Martha Custis-Rolfe/Randolph. Her fathers fathers played in the Tudor Place.
Now how American is that?

Through my maternal ancestry I am a member of the Yavapai Apache Nation, although I live down here by the Ak-Chin. From my paternal side I have one full blooded Mayan Great grandmother.

So I'm 40% Amerindian and 60% European (German/Spanish/Scottish)

I have very fair skin and light eyes, but still carry the almond shaped eyes, high cheekbones and dark hair. Most people have a hard time figuring out what I am.

great great grandmother on maternal side was full Cherokee

But for those of us who are members of a Nation, you have to see why we carry a certain amount of skepticism when people tell you "Oh I'm Indian too" and of course 99% of the time they claim Cherokee.