[fish hawk]

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.

[metmom]

Couldn’t DNA testing show something?

[Inyo-Mono]

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.

I hear you. There are many, many white Americans that have Indian blood but don't know it for the reasons you stipulated above. Like I mentioned in another post, I have many distant Mohawk cousins, due to their white ancestors (and mine too) being captured and integrated into the tribe.