Cherokee Blood?

[brucebohn]

Might help to explain why so many claim Indian ancestry...

At the same time that the Cherokee diaspora was expanding across the country, the federal government began adopting a system of “blood quantum” to determine Native American identity. Native Americans were required to prove their Cherokee, or Navajo, or Sioux “blood” in order to be recognized. (The racially based system of identification also excluded individuals with “one drop” of “Negro blood.”) The federal government’s “blood quantum” standards varied over time, helping to explain why recorded Cherokee “blood quantum” ranged from “full-blood” to one 2048th. The system’s larger aim was to determine who was eligible for land allotments following the government’s decision to terminate Native American self-government at the end of the 19th century. By 1934, the year that Franklin Roosevelt’s administration adopted the Indian Reorganization Act, “blood quantum” became the official measure by which the federal government determined Native American identity.

In the ensuing decades, Cherokees, like other Native American groups, sought to define “blood” on their own terms. By the mid–20th century, Cherokee and other American Indian activists began joining together to articulate their definitions of American Indian identity and to confront those tens of thousands of Americans who laid claim to being descendants of Native Americans.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_ ... ingle.html

[MichaelAllen]

Bruce,

I think I heard about this a few years ago. Good information. I had a great grandmother who claimed that her maternal grandfather was Cherokee. It bothered me so much after coming into CI that I had to know... so, my brother and I researched it and found we were clean in all directions going as far back as the 1600s and early 1700s for our ancestors who came over in later years.

I have met and heard of a few people in CI who were told this about themselves... in most cases, I'm highly suspicious because, as I've made the point before, bastards were not accepted in white communities until the mid-20th century. Our people had NO love for the indigenous savages until jew Hollywood started making westerns extolling them. They were considered as cruel animals - because that's what they are.