I assure you she has taken the test hoping that there was some native American blood someplace in her ancestry. There is none and thus she will never take the test publicly.
When I took the test I was most surprised. I had been told that we had minor amounts of Indian blood in our family. We had none. We did have a little less than 1% black blood. I was very amused at this finding.
I wish someone here who has some good credentials in genetics could explain something to me. A human being has 46 chromosomes. DNA exists on those chromosomes. Yet if you go back even as little as eight generations you have 256 ancestors from whom you could conceivable have gotten one of those chromosomes. Assuming one of those ancestors had DNA indicators for a certain "nationality," how could you be certain that you, who have only 46 chromosomes, might have received a copy of it? It seems to me there must be some serious extrapolating going on, or some other sort of mathematical deviltry, to say that a person is one percent of a certain type.
We were told by my husband’s uncle that Grandma was 1/4 Choctaw. I spent countless hours over the last 20 years researching our family history but never found that elusive brave or squaw. Then last year we all took the Ancestry DANA test and surprise, surprise! Not one freaking allele was NA. Oh well, gotta respect science I guess. Surprised that a progressive like Pocahontas won’t do the same.