[Bumashes]

Carded 1/16 Choctaw. Name: Laughing Fox. Hey, at least Laughing Fox is better than Farting Hare, at least that's what mom always told me.

[Mistify]

I am 1/4 Blood Blackfoot(my paternal grandmother was born on the rez in the early 1900's) and 1/16 Cherokee on mothers side.

[-Midget-]

Originally Posted by fotografe

I think I am 1/8 Cherokee.

Family legend has it that my maternal great grandmother was Cherokee. That would make her heading west about the time of the removals to Oklahoma, with a permanent stop off to Illinois. I tried to find her on the Rolls, but in all likelihood, she declined to join as she was already assimilating into white culture. I have her photograph, and if not Cherokee, she was descended from one of the Eastern peoples. I have cousins who were able to document Lumbee in their line (the side I am not kin to), but as far as I know they couldn't get any paper on the Cherokee lineage. It is possible we are Lumbee -- easier to say you are Cherokee than to explain the precarious political and historical lineage of the Lumbee. Interestingly enough, one of my dentists was into the anthropology of dental features. He looked at my teeth and declared I was descended from either Native Americans or Asians. How's that for answering the roll call?

That's fascinating that your dentist could make such a determination based off your teeth!

[nightingale]

1/8 Black Feet here; ffaternal side.

Thanks for asking...

night

[mom and nurse]

Don't know if I count. My great grandmother and her sister, both her parents, and grandparents, cousins, etc were members of the Cherokee nation of Oklahoma (also Cherokee citizens were my great-grandmother's husband and his family who had died before I was born). They were mixed African American and Cherokee and were on the Cherokee freedmen rolls of the Dawes. I miss my great grandmother and her mom, they used to tell me about Oklahoma before it became a state and their ancestors had apparently travelled along with the Native Americans on the traill of tears....They lived in an area that was called Cooweescoowee, now known as Bartlesville, etc....

mom and nurse

[twinmommy+1]

Wow, I'm so glad this board is here! Ok, I'm about 1/16 (or so) Lenape we think. My mothers family is very scattered and has serious issues with addiction. Needless to say they don't talk to each other and I've never met anyone besides the uncles on my mother's side of the family so we don't know for sure that we are decended from Lenape tribe but are fairly sure.

[pickledpepperRN]

Originally Posted by mom and nurse

Don't know if I count. My great grandmother and her sister, both her parents, and grandparents, cousins, etc were members of the Cherokee nation of Oklahoma. They were mixed African American and Cherokee and were on the Cherokee freedmen rolls of the Dawes. I miss my great grandmother and her mom, they used to tell me about Oklahoma before it became a state and their ancestors had apparently travelled along with the Native Americans on the traill of tears....They lived in an area that was called Cooweescoowee, now known as Bartlesville, etc....

mom and nurse

I'm not Native American but I certainly think you count.
My aunt is Cherokee. I've known her all my life because she married my mothers brother before I was born.
I attended a kid’s camp at Anadarko, OK, now known as Indian Capital of the Nation, and listened to old ladies when I was a kid in the ‘50s. My name was Wa Lu Pi.
They taught me a lot. I heard stories about how the medicine women didn’t know the plants so couldn’t make their remedies.
One woman, Mrs. Green, had been born a slave.

http://www.500nations.com/Oklahoma_Places.asp
http://nativetimes.com/letterstothee...p?LetterID=347
http://nativetimes.com/letterstotheeditor.asp
http://www.ok.nrcs.usda.gov/contact/..._liaisons.html
http://www.ok-history.mus.ok.us/edu/PASS-III.html
http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/census/index.htm

[millkay]

I'm 1/4 Southern Cheyenne-Arapaho and 1/4 Rosebud Sioux from my mother. I've found similar mixes of families both in Oklahoma and South Dakota. I'm an Okie by birth but a Critical Care travel nurse by choice.

[WOLFE]

Paternal great grandfather was 100% Cherokee. I to have been asked by a dentist if i was of Native American descent. The dentist had no prior knowledge.

[Tanzanite]

My NAI ancestory was back in the 1600's. They were the Micmac tribe near Novia Scotia/Port Royal. The French men married Indian wives,(no french women around, I presume) so my great grandma to the 9th or 10th power named "Radegonde", was my first NAI ancestor. I believe several Micmac's migrated to to ports in the US (especially Maine & Louisiana) after the great french deportation. I have no idea what percentage that would make me.