[ThunderSleeps]

Liberalism gone insane. (but I repeat myself)

1.5% ... wow. So what is the cutoff where a person is no-longer considered native american? 1.0%? 0.1%? 0.00001%?

I ask because going back through my maternal grandmother's family tree there were apparently some rather controversial frontier settler types. It is very likely I've got more than a little native american in me.

Let's do the math. ('cause I'm an engineer and I actually like this stuff) Going back, assuming no inbreeding, each generation doubles the number of ancestors you have. There's you (1), there's your parents (2), there's your grandparents (4), there's your great grand parents (8)... Assuming only one ancestor of pure blood of any type that would be one person in your great great great great grandparent's generation. At that point your family tree is 64 people wide. Oh, now for the fun part. Assuming about 30 years between generations (though it was probably a little less long ago) that means for people of my generation (moderately old farts) my great great great great grandparents were born roughly about the time the revolutionary war was ending, maybe just a few years after that.

So, how much of a familial connection do you think I feel to someone I've never even heard of, one of 64 ancestors, born in the time of Washington and Jefferson? Yeah, not much. How much do you think this little girl identifies with a single ancestor from say sometime between the war of 1812 and the civil war?

[Blue Collar Christian]

“How much do you think this little girl identifies with a single ancestor from say sometime between the war of 1812 and the civil war?”

Wait until she spends the rest of her youth and at least the beginning of her adulthood in the company of white hating native-Americans that cannot be racists teaching her victim entitlement to see how she identifies.

[Agnes Heep]

So what is the cutoff where a person is no-longer considered native american? 1.0%? 0.1%? 0.00001%?

I don't know, but if you ask around, you'll find that nearly everybody in the country is "part-Cherokee."

[Agnes Heep]

So, how much of a familial connection do you think I feel to someone I've never even heard of, one of 64 ancestors, born in the time of Washington and Jefferson?

If you really want to work some math, try to determine what the chances are that you'll actually carry a chromosome owned by any particular one of those original ancestors. I don't know myself, but I've been told the odds aren't good.