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So, when can my European-extraction family and I open our own tribal casino on our extra back lot?

European tribes were still active until the 9th and 10th centuries (Germanics, DAcians, Slavics, MAgyar, Finno-Baltics, Vikings etc.) and they were only civilised about a millenium ago, thanks to Rome and it's daughter Byzantium.

If your ancestry is any of those above, then you are only about 500 to 600 years close to the tribal nature of native Americans when Europeans landed.

If your ancestry is southern European, i.e Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Greek, then your ancestry is responsible for the civilising of Europe and the Americas but you haven't been part of a "tribe" since circa 500 BC

Finally, even if you are of European extraction, you're most likely not descended from those first settlers who came from the east rather than the west into the Americas. The genes of those settlers would be in those descended from native americans