[stylin19a]

Genealogy and DNA - 2 different things.
Plus, DNA can't get to the tribe level.
What if she's not Cherokee ? Then the Cherokee genealogy is useless.

also note, that there in no U.S. native american DNA database. I have posted this elsewhere.

from the Bustamante Warren report:

For Native American references, we used samples within the 1000 Genomes project of Native American ancestry; these samples come from Mexico, Peru, and Colombia. (It is not possible to use Native American reference sequences from inside the United States, since Native American groups within the US have not chosen to participate in recent population genetics studies.)

so she's Peruvian ? or Mexican ? or Colombian ?

[ArmstedFragg]

Also note that the length for #10 was compared to the average NA, rather than to the entire population.

[redcatcherb412]

from the Bustamante Warren report: For Native American references, we used samples within the 1000 Genomes project of Native American ancestry; these samples come from Mexico, Peru, and Colombia. (It is not possible to use Native American reference sequences from inside the United States, since Native American groups within the US have not chosen to participate in recent population genetics studies.)

Remember the old westerns where the Indians wouldn't let them take a photograph because they thought it was stealing their soul ?

Word has it this Bustamonte dna expert also moonlights as a polygraph expert for college professors and the DNC. /S