How many people in North America have Native American ancestry? And do they embrace their roots and culture?
I know that a lot of Latinos have some Native blood, especially in Latin America and in the Caribbean.
But what about Whites and Blacks?
How many of them, in percentage, are part Native American?
And what tribes,exactly?
Thanks
Most people in of every ethnicity in the Southeastern U.S. who have ancestry there for at least 4 generations will have Native ancestry. While it is seldom commented on due to modern historical revisionism that insists that the South was full of racism across the board this is simply not so.
The history of Native Americans in the South is very different from elsewhere in the U.S. The “Five civilized tribes” all lived among and traded with the whites and even assimilated their culture to some degree. The Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Cherokee were all on good terms with the Europeans and in fact the two former did not wage war on whites until they chose sides in the American Civil War. The Chickasaw and Choctaw were in fact paid a handsome sum for their land and relocated originally on their terms. In the aftermath of the American civil war this of course changed.
The intermingling of genes that is pervasive was probably not on such happy and neighborly terms. In fact the trail of tears will account for much of this Native ancestry in people who do not appear native. Daughters were often sold along the way westward ostensibly for a a twofold purpose. One being the immediate survival of daughters and the other for material resources to meet immediate needs of the remaining family.
I have two great grandmothers who were full blooded Cherokee that came about in just his manner.
I do not celebrate my native ancestry as I was not raised to observe it and find it somewhat distasteful when a person who is for all intents and purposes is white tries toimitatee some caricature of their concept of what a native is. Some of the things I have learned from my grand parents no doubt originated from my native great grandmothers but they are not designated as such.
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