Posted on 10/15/2018 9:56:53 AM PDT by mojito
Keep in mind that those odds (1/100th of a percent) are for a relative with SOME Indian blood. NOT a full blooded Indian.
My father’s great, great grandmother was 100% North Carolina Cherokee. I have the family bibles and documentation. So what? It’s an interesting family history footnote. Not a qualification for a $350K job or high office.
Interesting side note. My dad & us kids are all blond, European looking. His cousins are all dark haired, high cheek bones. The Cherokee blood in them is quite obvious. Some of them got into their 70s with nary a grey hair.
I am just about as white as white can be, 99% European. My 5th great grandmother was Native American, Chickasaw. So, I’m more indian than she is. I also have a trace of sub-Saharan African DNA, which is more than her indian DNA as well. While I could claim some sort of indian ancestry like she does, or African, it is so tiny, and I didn’t grow up in that culture, so I would feel very uncomfortable doing so.
My guess as well. They need to present the percent for those with no known heritage.
My daughter did some research & it seems DNA testing for ancestry purposes is not nearly as clear and defined as we are led to believe.
In Warren’s case with these numbers, it means absolutely nothing except that she’s a mutt like most of us.
LOL ping.
Statement From Boston Globe: “Due to a math error, a story about Elizabeth Warren misstated the ancestry percentage of a potential 10th generation relative. It should be 1/1,024.”
There’s more Elizabeth Warren DNA in any given Indian than there is Indian DNA in her.
Here we have Elizabeth Warren, right there on the white-people average for being Indian.
This doesn’t even get into the skeeviness of DNA tests (mine told me I was Irish, Greek and Latino, which I find hard to believe), which is often a function of genetic traits matching certain geographic populations. In Warren’s claim, her Stanford geneticist (a buddy?) claims there was a high likelihood that she had one unadmixtured Native American ancestor six to ten generations back.
Given the potential buddy factor, one wonders how she’d do in a blind DNA test from Ancestry.com, the kind Trump said he’d like to throw her at a presidential debate. Howie Carr suspects she already had taken that and didn’t like the result, which would explain why she has been so silent as Trump has had his fun.
It’s funny because, well, she’s so white-bread in appearance, much more than most other whites. And her tomato-mayonnaise choice of recipes for a Native American recipe book called Pow Wow Chow, apparently taken from some other publication, couldn’t have been more whitey-white, either. Howie Carr exposed that one, too.
What’s not funny is that Warren is charged with using that utterly tenuous claim to Indian blood to get a leg up on other applicants for law positions at competitive universities.
Warren was touted in recruitment literature for her Native American heritage by Harvard and Penn, while Fordham Law Review hailed her as Harvard Law’s “first woman of color,” something she never tried to disabuse the university of at the time as the former house-flipper bit and clawed her way to the top.
She liked the leg up on other white applicants, and never mind that she displaced a genuine Native American from the affirmative action slot. Can a white guy with 1/512 African-American blood now be able to claim that black affirmative action law professor slot now, Liz?
ROTFLMAO! with the nuclear fallout!
Two years and they still haven't learned, attack. The Donald at your own peril, master of the Knock out game.
Yes, that would assume one of the couple would be 100% white and the other 100% Indian. I should have stated that.
1/1,024 is more likely something like Powhatan than Cherokee. In other words, an American indian ancestor that most Americans with many ancestors in pre-1700 Virginia would have whether it shows up on a DNA test or not.
That’s funny.
If you visit the reservation, and if you have any American Indian DNA in you, whether you know it or not, you heart will pull hard and you will cry,
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Only if they are a tribal member. To be able to claim NA for government contracting you have to have a tribal census number. For other things maybe- but she claimed Cherokee and they don't accept DNA. You have to be able to show direct lineage to a tribal member or someone on the final rolls after the removal.
Actually, 1/64 to 1/1024. They fixed the lower number, but not the upper number (because, I presume, the upper number was set to correspond to some claim she made years ago).
That happened to me - after I donated $100 to their casino....
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