Pretty sure Cher’s Armenian, not American Indian.
From Wikipedia:
Her father, John Sarkisian, was an Armenian truck driver with drug and gambling problems, and her mother, Jackie Jean Crouch, was an occasional model and bit-part actress with Irish, English, German, and Cherokee ancestry.
Just checked on Ask.com. Cher’s mother is Cherokee, American and French. Her father is Armenian. Remembering back,throughout her career she identified with her Indian heritage.
From Wikipedia:
Cher's High School Picture
Cher was born Cherilyn Sarkisian in El Centro, California, on May 20, 1946. Her father, John Sarkisian, was an Armenian truck driver with drug and gambling problems, and her mother, Jackie Jean Crouch, was an occasional model and bit-part actress with Irish, English, German, and Cherokee ancestry.
Cher is somewhere between one-fourth and one-eighth Native American. To my knowledge, her upbringing was normal middle-class white American, and that she never had any significant Native American experience as a youth. My former girlfriend had a lot more Native American in her, and she does not in any way share Cher’s attitudes. My ex-GF was one-fourth Sioux, her first husband was a full-blooded native, and she spent several years living on a rez in eastern Washington. And she happily celebrates Thanksgiving.