My sister sent hers in... it said ZERO % Native American.
But, My mother’s grandmother was 100% Cherokee. At least, that’s the family story that was handed down. And, we’ve found plenty of supporting evidence in genealogical studies.
Those people are frauds.
Did she have high cheekbones?
Not saying that you are wrong, but people believing that they have Cherokee ancestry is very common. After the trail of tears it was fashionable to claim to have Cherokee relatives. Then the stories were passed through generations. Notice how most who claim to have native American ancestry almost always claim Cherokee? Also generally the story is that the ancestor was a princess(no such thing) or a great chief.
I think they have something against Native Americans myself. My results came back with 0% Native American ancestry even though my maternal great-grandparents are in Dawes (Cherokee Dad and Choctaw Mom) and my grandmother married a Cherokee-by-blood.
23 and Me nailed down my ancestry to the precise county in Ireland that part of my family came from, and the specific German region where my grandmother was born. I was impressed.
If you’re serious about DNA testing then you do Ancestry to get a broad cross section of people who are closely related to you, Family Tree DNA to better identify your haplogroup and distant family, and then 23&me to corroborate the data. The points all three agree on can be assumed as accurate. Remove the extraneuos noise and you’ll have a fairly accurate picture.
That said my family always claimed Irish ancestry and also claimed a Native American in the family tree.
Using the above methodology I found out we’re pricipally Scottish with Nordic roots. I also identified my father’s birth parents which led me to his adoption papers. The DNA told a truth we never knew.
We are not the least bit of Irish lineage but our lowland Scottish family lived in Northern Ireland from ~1765 and started migrating to the USA in the period 1846 to 1920. Which is where the Irish origin story came from.
The DNA can lead you to truths and stories you never knew. It’s a fun journey if you decide to do it right.
Family history handed down in my case, said that a great-great-grandmother was 50-percent Creek Indian. DNA test results? Zero. But then there’s this trace of African DNA and one weird part of the Indian story didn’t add up (this relative came out of southern Georgia at least 50 years after all of the Creek Indians vacated the region).