I still have a hard time believing my MIL’s grandmother was some kind of Indian. My hubby found it out supposedly because he likes genealogy. I find it hard to believe a person, his mom, would never have mentioned or known about her grandma being an Indian.
During their early life it was probably not beneficial to be identified as Indian even part ...
“I still have a hard time believing my MIL’s grandmother was some kind of Indian. “
How much do you wanna bet the websites like Ancestry.com promulgate this crap identity?
Fake and imagined history at these sites much of the problem.
Ancestory DNA testing shows I have 8% Native American from my father, He probably had 16 % but did not have dna testing at that time in his life. He always knew his mother was part Nanimo (Vancouver Island reservation) but when he tried to prove it (to garner some special fishing rights) he was unable to. His mom looked very indian, but passed as white and once she married and moved to the US, at age 16, she never put Native American on any records. It was common to avoid discrimination by doing this.
One time in Washington state on business a person came up to me and asked if I was part indian. I was surprised but also proud that I had some indian resemblence.
I can believe that someone would not mention Indian ancestry. My mother only told me in the last years of her life that her great-grandmother was Jewish.