NAI descent: Roll Call

1/32 Cherokee........does that count?

My hubby is half Apache though.

Seneca ancenstry (paternal) and adopted Brother Of Cherokee.

carded 1/8 Choctaw. Actually am 1/4 Osage and some Cherokee (not sure actually how much)

1/8 Algonquin, First Nations.

My maternal grandfather and paternal grandmother were both 100% Cherokee. So 1/4 from both sides.


Im so glad to see this forum!

I am 1/4 Cherokee (maternal).

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?

1/4 paternal Cherokee, 1/4 paternal Blackfeet, 1/4 maternal Cherokee, 1/4 maternal Mohawk. Add those all together and they equal "one whole"........so does that make me a "whole" NAI?

On my father's side my great-grandmother was Cherokee.