He is now denying the validity of dna tests. I don’t want to say the past 35 years of having him treat me worse than he treats his sister had anything to do with his assumptions of my dna, but he was upset to learn that I am more Irish than him. I wonder what he thought of my mother before these results…
I was also told our family was part Cherokee. It’s apparently a super common claim
You hear it so much that frankly when I hear it I assume they’re lying. Like it’s become that stereotype.
I’m struggling to process that this is so common… Also had this in my family growing up
I’m up in northern Ontario in Canada and I had a French Canadian neighbor who loved watching John Wayne movies. He often told me that he had Cherokee ancestry too.
I told him a hundred times that this wasn’t Cherokee territory because I was full blooded Ojibwe Cree from this area and we had never heard of Cherokee. I kept telling him that he was probably part Ojibwe or Algonquin which is who the French mixed with in our area … but he really wanted to be a John Wayne movie Indian.
That’s hilarious!
Mixed race / olive skinned people trying to find something more acceptable in order to avoid being outcast. Also, edgelords.
My mother always claimed that some amount of greats-grandmother was a Cherokee princess, but I’ve always thought it was bunk.
Definitely bunk because there were no Cherokee princesses. Could still have some sort of Native American ancestry but that whole Cherokee Princess thing was so overused at one point that it became a trope.