My daughter’s GGG grandma is a full-blooded Mohawk from Akwesasne
Indian Resevation in upstate NY. As a matter of fact just about everbody in that part of NY State can claim Indian blood. One of my daughter’s looks like me. She’s light-complected and if she lays in the sun 10 minutes she gets sunburned. My other daughter is dark-complected and if she lays in the sun she gets darker. Their mother and her mother and father had black hair and and also were dark complected. Not a one of them claimed they were Indian. Not a one wanted to. For what. They grew up with and went to school with the Indians who lived right down the road. Every time we went to Massena you had to drive through the reservation. We always stopped for cheap cigarettes. There’s a couple of big casinos and I’ve got a couple nieces who’ve been working there for years. You can tell they’re part Indian, but it’s never mentioned. It’s no big deal, about everybody has Indian in their family. . They would not think of passing themselves off as Indian because their GGG grandma was a Mohawk.
Right. The real issue is using believed and unprovable ancestry to get special treatment. It’s a load of crap.