[I got the rope]

My own DNA will tell me whether it's true that my great-great-grandmother was half Native American

LOL. It's always amazing to me when I here white folks talk about their Cherokee ancestors. It's a riot. So many people at my work claim they have Native blood that you'd think we have Ghost Dance or something. LMAO!

[CobaltBlue]

Well, my great-grandmother was a student at the Carlisle Indian School in Carlisle, PA. I obtained her student record from the National Archives, and she is listed as half Chippewa. So I don't think there is any question that she was part Chippewa. What I specifically want to know is whether the Chippewa was on the maternal side or the paternal.

I think probably maternal, that's the family oral history, but I am having trouble tracing her side of the family any further back than 1880.

[FITZ]

It's always amazing to me when I here white folks talk about their Cherokee ancestors.

So do black folks --- only I believe they most likely do. The Indians went somewhere --- and there aren't many pure Indians tribes left --- they went into the other populations here. One Indian ancestor 6 generations back could have hundreds of thousands of white and black and indian descendents.