re: How many of you are really Native American?

Another problem with the “civilized tribes”, especially Cherokee, is that there was widespread assimilation, intermarriage, and offspring produced between Natives and Europeans almost as soon as Europeans set foot on this continent and encountered these tribes.

John Ross is probably the most notable Cherokee in history. He was born in the late 1700s, served under Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812, and was a Cherokee leader during the Trail of Tears.

His father was white. His “Cherokee” mother was mixed. He was probably only 1/8 Cherokee at most.

If Cherokees 200 years ago were far from being full blooded Cherokees, imagine how diluted their ancestors DNA must be today.