Lol! I hear that all the time even thogh their ancestors lived no where near the Cherokee. None of my ancestors married into the tribe but they were run out of North Carolina by the Cherokee in 1761.
One of the big problems of what I call “lost identity” is that a lot of people really do have Indian blood but can’t prove it because of early relatives hid the fact because in those days being part Indian was a put down and you were not accepted in the majority of White society. Just as in those days if you had any negro blood you were considered a black person, no matter how small the blood quantum.