Anomalous DNA in the Cherokee

http://ancientamerica.com/anomalous-dna-in-the-cherokee/ ^ | July 18, 2014

[bert]

Don’t the Zuni like the Hopi and the Pueblo claim to be part of the Chaco culture even though they are a race apart?

[blam]

I have a friend who's kids get a monthly income from the casino's here in Alabama because they are Indian. (their mother is 1/2 Indian)

[blam]

"Don’t the Zuni like the Hopi and the Pueblo claim to be part of the Chaco culture even though they are a race apart?"

I think the Zuni moved into that area after most others had left.

[The Great RJ]

My wife has possibly 1/64 Native American ancestry as a great grandmother was at least part Iroquois. My mother in law jokes that they would have to be part some tribe without casino revenue to share.

[Claud]

That’s what I thought, thanks!

[Covenantor]

A black neighbor of mine said, “ That b**** is whiter than mayo on Wonder bread.”

[Covenantor]

Poor chile has no home...

[LambSlave]

That was 23andMe. They are backed by Google so finding articles about it are difficult.

They didn't insert "3rd party" DNA-- they just lied. If the person was of pure European ancestry with no African origin they deceptively listed it as, " less than 2% African Ancestry" to "mess with the white supremacists".

[SunkenCiv]

Cracked -- not a news source, as I said..

[Tammy8]

When I was working on my Cherokee genealogy I got in touch with a member of the Cherokee tribe that was a genealogist and he said it is one of the most diluted tribes, they intermarried with Caucasians and others much earlier than many other tribes. One of the sad things about the Cherokee removal is large numbers of Cherokee were already assimilated, living as “white” people...had communities, farming, ETC. Many spoke English and lived as and with whites. Those removed to Oklahoma were not full Cherokee, even then.

[Claud]

Ah, sorry. I thought I saw it somewhere else but maybe they were citing this.

My bad.

[Grimmy]

That was 23 and Me that purposely misreported Europeans to have some African and/or Semitic genes.

[Blogger]

I know ancestry.com throws out what it considers “common” DNA to the exclusion of what actually may be a match. I have a relative who has a half sister. She still shows as half sister, but when I run the DNA through GEDMatch without the exclusions, it’s a much stronger match.

[Blogger]

Agreed.

[Blogger]

They say there was no “Cherokee” tribe prior to like the 1600s. It was a mixture of other tribes and white and possibly Jewish settlers. I do show a little Ashkenazi as well.

[Blogger]

I have mine traced to the Caesars in some instances. I believe it back to about the 1500s. Have been doing genealogy since about 1983. Have been in America a VERY long time.

[Blogger]

.4% and .3% with 90% confidence

[Blogger]

My NA ancestry drops to .1% with 90% confidence, stays at .2% with 80%.

[Blogger]

Cherokee, particularly Eastern, are highly undersampled. I think it is a recent mixed modern tribe made up of whites and Creek or some other older tribes.

[Blogger]

Ancestry doesn’t show me has having any African or NA. I have not run into African in my genealogy, though I believe I do have Cherokee - on both sides. I also believe I’ll never prove it. 23 and me shows me with both African and NA and GedMatch shows me with both.