[Dr. Sivana]

I was told that a long standing story that I had some American Indian in me from way back, an adopted Indian child.

Then my nephew got a DNA test. No American Indian, but a little bit of black African (he is whiter than Macaulay Culkin). My guess is that back then the lying was better to say you were American Indian instead of black.

[Tired of Taxes]

>"My guess is that back then the lying was better to say you were American Indian instead of black."<

And, per Henry Louis Gates, many black families have a story about an American Indian ancestor. Then, their DNA shows they're part white with no American Indian.

It's almost like everyone wants to be part American Indian. lol

[Grampa Dave]

“Then, my nephew got a DNA test. No American Indian, but a little bit of black African (he is whiter than Macaulay Culkin). My guess is that back then the lying was better to say you were American Indian instead of black.”

That lying in the past was probably correct with many of us with so called Native American ancestors.

However, apparently many of our so called Native American ancestors had zero DNA showing Native American genes. In particular those also with documented Euro ancestry.

A sibling and I supposedly have zero Native American DNA.

Yet according to Ancestry.com we have many great/great/great Native American grandparents based on birth certificates, wedding data and obit data.

Maybe there was a reason there were so called civilized Native American tribes.

Did they descend from Euro ancestors?

Yet we have African DNA traceable to 1%.