I have a tiny amount of Cherokee too. My great grandmother’s hair was coarse black, and straight. I know this because I have a lock of it. No way was she 100% Caucasian. On another branch the line goes back to Rachel, Cherokee princess sometime in the 18th century. These were the “white” cherokee who married into the European settlers in Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
Wow. Awesome heritage and story. My GG Grandmother hid from the Indian roundup. Hid in the woods. A family took her in and raised her as their own. Don’t know what ever happened to the rest. Her offspring were never to utter that they were Cherokee for fears for being sent to a reservation. It was so deeply ingrained....my grandmother didn’t like speaking of it. She did in later life.
My husband was talking to his elderly aunt about family heritage. My husband really wanted to hear that he had Native American ancestry. His aunt said “yes there was a Indian grandmother but don’t worry she was the white folks kind of Indian”.