re: What percent Native American are you? Which tribe?

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It's mostly Elizabeth Warren types that do this.

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I hate that useless skank bitch.

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I hate that useless skank bitch

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You just triggered the hell out of Tiger in Miami

88%
Tribe: TugMyWuchamacallit

None. 100% American of Northern European descent.

Super Cracker.

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South for more than 3 generations claims some level of Native American ancestry.

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Like those guys from Swamp People? Because they look white.

Our family line is Irish-American since 1741. The only contaminant was a Norwegian who slipped it to a female relative in the 19th century.

Using the Elizabeth Warren scale, I'm 234% Indian (feather, not dot).

While I do not have much in me, my ancestor was Chief Whitepath of the Cherokee tribe. He was involved with Andrew Jackson in the Creek Wars, and he ended up having to go to Washington to fight off the Native American removal that Andrew Jackson started supporting.

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White Path strongly protested the influence of white settlers in fiery oratory at the Cherokee capitol of New Echota. A strict follower of the traditional ways he spoke against the new Cherokee constitution and the introduction of Christianity by the missionaries. He eventually yielded to the new ways and focused his efforts on fighting the removal policies of his old comrade and now president, Andrew Jackson. He and Chief John Ross traveled to Washington to denounce the removal treaty signed as void. They were unsuccessful and returned to Georgia.

In the fall of 1838 at the age of 77 White Path helped to organize the removal, later known as the “Trail of Tears.” He and other Cherokee leaders realized that the best chance for survival lay in an orderly march to Oklahoma. On a stop near Hopkinsville, Kentucky, White Path died and was buried beside Chief Fly Smith who also died during the night. Today his former home is interpreted as a Cherokee farmstead c. 1835, with authentic furnishings, typical of a Cherokee home just prior to the removal.

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Between the time where he protested against the white man's influence and the Trail of Tears, he started having his kids try to marry white people. He knew if they were to shack up with some white people they would be persecuted less and stood a chance to remain in their home.


ETA: One of you Georgia folks should grab me a can of Chief Whitepath IPA from Fannin Brewing Co. Living in Michigan pretty much ensures I'll never get one on my own.

Did Ancestry last summer. 0%. Closest affiliation is one set of great great etc. grandparents apparently retired/died on a reservation.