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Used to be the 'one drop' rule was in force so if you had any knowledge of a black ancestor you kept your mouth shut. BTW, except in a handful of states, folks known to be Indian in any degree were identified as 'not white'.

It's only recently become popular for white folks to admit to Indian ancestry. Black folks have been into that for more than a century.

Now, how many white folks have Indian ancestry in this country. Well, to start with, there's a genetic marker ~ shovel teeth. If you got 'em and have no known East Asian or Cossack ancestry, you're in the zone ~ and that has been known for years to be 2%. Since that's an autosomal recessive, there'd be another 2% with no shovel tooth gene at all, and 4% with a recessive gene that could be identified. That's a grand total 8% of the white population have to have an American Indian ancestor.

That'd be well over 15 million people! The recognized tribes have no where near that number of members.

Going well beyond that group, there another 9 million white folks who have some or a lot of Sa'ami (Laplander) ancestry in this country. That's roughly 100 times the number of Sa'ami in Europe!