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Years ago we were in Washington, DC. My friend was with me, a full blooded Southern Ute tribal member. Everywhere we went, they would look at her and then note, "Oh, yeah, my (great, great, whatever) grandmother was an Indian princess." We were there a week and by the end, we were laughing our heads off about the whole thing. I swear every other person we ran into had an ancestor who was an "Indian princess." (Of course, never mind that they didn't have that kind of hierarchy in Native American tribes.)
I got my DNA results and it turns out that I'm 32% Native-American. That being said, I have no idea what tribe. When I've done my genealogy, I have simply run across notations that "John Smith" (my whatever great-ancestor) married, "an Indian woman." So sad that they were so bad back then they couldn't even give folks a proper name. Sigh.........
Years ago we were in Washington, DC. My friend was with me, a full blooded Southern Ute tribal member. Everywhere we went, they would look at her and then note, "Oh, yeah, my (great, great, whatever) grandmother was an Indian princess." We were there a week and by the end, we were laughing our heads off about the whole thing. I swear every other person we ran into had an ancestor who was an "Indian princess." (Of course, never mind that they didn't have that kind of hierarchy in Native American tribes.)
I got my DNA results and it turns out that I'm 32% Native-American. That being said, I have no idea what tribe. When I've done my genealogy, I have simply run across notations that "John Smith" (my whatever great-ancestor) married, "an Indian woman." So sad that they were so bad back then they couldn't even give folks a proper name. Sigh.........
32% is a lot of Native American !! congratulations. That is hard to find around.
Here is my Harappa World results from Gedmatch, I am about 26% Native American.
Population
S-Indian -
Baloch 3.82
Caucasian 8.57
NE-Euro 17.90
SE-Asian 0.71
Siberian 1.75
NE-Asian -
Papuan -
American 26.33 <====26% Native American
Beringian -
Mediterranean 24.53
SW-Asian 6.44
San 0.50
E-African 1.22
Pygmy -
W-African 8.23
I just found out I am 25% native american. didn't even know i had has any in my blood line. Id love to learn more, any suggestions on how i found out what tribe i would belong to?
I just found out I am 25% native american. didn't even know i had has any in my blood line. Id love to learn more, any suggestions on how i found out what tribe i would belong to?
There is NOT way to know. We are the same people, doesn't matter if you are Cherokee or Mayan or Athabascan or Warao or Navajo or Aymara, etc.
I just found out I am 25% native american. didn't even know i had has any in my blood line. Id love to learn more, any suggestions on how i found out what tribe i would belong to?
There is no way to know from the DNA, you'd have to research your ancestry to find out. Are you Latin American? That's a high percentage to have and not know it unless maybe you're Latin American.
My daughter is five years old her dad is Cherokee Indian and receives the check will she also receive one or only do or only when she’s 18 ?
If "the check" you reference is a per cap check for members from that tribe--money derived from tribal holdings which are industries like gambling, oil, coal, timber, fishing, agriculture, tourism-- you need realize every nation is different & has different enrollment rules.
Typically the enrolled parent would do the paperwork required to enroll their child--if child was eligible for enrollment. Some recognize only children born of legal marriage & living on that reservation for example...or enrolled within so many days of birth or limited to a certain percentage of Indian blood or limited to offspring of members enrolled at a certain date. You need talk to enrollment personnel at that specific tribal office to find out what their criteria for enrollment is. The Cherokee have three different nations with different criteria.
The health care benefit provided Native Americans by treaty may be something she is be eligible for even though she is not an enrolled member of a tribe. Those are questions you could ask at Bureau of Indian Afffairs -- about how to obtain a CDIB card. Here is information to get you started.
I have done the Ancestry DNA and came up 59% Native American. How do I find the tribe?
You have to do paper trail research. If you have 59% Native American DNA that means a parent was a full Native or both were very high percentages. If you know your parents and/or your grandparents it should lead you to a tribe somewhere recently.
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