That was something I didn’t know until recently. Many Indian tribes had rules that they could not be served alcohol, and since they were duel citizens had it stamped on the license.
Didn’t see it to much where I grew up, but I remember the “special” licenses.
Yes, my dad said he was refused service too. Some of his uncles were bootleggers though, so I guess they could drink at home, LOL. My grandmother even took on a Latin name to avoid discrimination.
My mother was part Jewish. Her family had become Seventh Day Adventist as a lot of them did, because at least they observed the Sabbath. Anyway, when I was an adult I had bough a star of David necklace. She saw me with it on one time and was horrified, telling me I shouldn’t let anyone know I was Jewish. Things may have changed for the Cherokee but maybe not so much for the Jews.