Thanks for posting this link.
A New History of the First Peoples in the Americas:
2+ decades ago, I really got into genealogy after I took early retirement. I ended up as a genealogy librarian at the local Mormon Temple Genealogy Library and for the county society. (I’m not Mormon.)
My Dad had died in 1996, and he was an orphan raised by an aunt. He and she didn’t discuss much of his/their ancestry.
Both my Dad and his Aunt had talked about being part Cherokee.
My Grandfather on my mother’s side was English and had a very interesting genealogy and supposedly no Indian ancestors.
In about 6 years of genealogy research, I had most of these ancestors documented data/lineages. Then, I hit brick walls re documentation. So I stopped researching. This was before DNA became big re genealogy research. DNA has revolutionized the genealogy world and market.
A couple of years ago a sibling and an adult child had gotten DNA tests and into Ancestor.com.. They paid for a year subscription and my DNA test to get me back into the game.
Since, then I have found to 30,000 identified ancestors, many of which we knew nothing about. This documentation is both DNA, paper wise and via communications on the internet.
It has been fascinating to find so many “new” ancestors and yet frustrating.
The frustration had been identifying/documenting on paper close to 200 Cherokee ancestors and a handful of other tribes with documentation and zero DNA data.
These ancestors were not my Dad’s. They were a few generations past on my Maternal Grand Dad’s. They never mentioned anything about any Indian/Cherokee ancestors.
We found that 3% of my and my sibling’s DNA data came from western Africa. There is no real paper documentation yet on either side of parents of who were my/our African ancestors. My sibling’s grand kids have this documented DNA. That totally destroys the bs explanation that our Indian DNA is too far back generation wise to show up on DNA.
The Atlantic link you posted basically tells us that there is no true American Native DNA, aka any tribe.
Again, thanks for posting that link.
I'm not into genealogy research but I found it interesting as to
the development of this country over the many eons.