• Growing up in a Black neighborhood, graduating from a majority Black high school, and living in a Black city, if only I had a dime for every time someone Black told me they were "part Cherokee" (or some other Indian tribe). (debbieschlussel.com)
  • It's the biggest myth in African-American genealogy: 'My great grandmother was a Cherokee princess,' " he says, adding, "The average slave and the average Native American didn't even see each other, which makes it very hard to mate. (debbieschlussel.com)
  • The social worker's report for the section 366.26 hearing disclosed that Gregory N. 'may be eligible for enrollment in the Cherokee tribe. (narf.org)
  • The social worker reported: 'Notice ( [DSS form] Soc 319) was sent to the three Cherokee tribes on 7/19/2002. (narf.org)
  • The social worker also reported that responses had been received from two of the tribes--the United Keetoowah *1423 Band and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians--'stat[ing] that the [minor] **18 is not eligible for enrollment. (narf.org)
  • If your relatives swap legends about a "Cherokee princess" in the family tree or your lineage claims other Native American ancestors, Ancestry.com has some tools to help you separate history from lore. (familytreemagazine.com)
  • Most notably, these include the Five Civilized Tribes that originally lived in the southeastern United States: the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole. (familytreemagazine.com)
  • Her mother has English, Scottish, Welsh, Dutch, and French ancestry, and has also stated that she is of part Cherokee Native American descent. (ethnicelebs.com)
  • It is not clear if this Cherokee Native American ancestry has been verified/documented. (ethnicelebs.com)
  • I think they said Kevin Costner was also accused of false Cherokee or American Indian ancestry. (ethnicelebs.com)
  • The two were investigated, Rae was a close friend of Sacheen Littlefeather and Costner is involved in the development of Yellowstone, cast Kelsey Asbille, who was not (nor any of her mother's family) claimed by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, she has a role as a Native American character on that series. (ethnicelebs.com)
  • The five "civilized" Indian tribes with whom the Croatans "amalgamated" are named as the Cherokee, Tuscarora, Meherrin, Waccamaw and Saponi (Haliwah). (dnaconsultants.com)
  • Bijon Levels Hughes (left) and highway marker showing his 6th-great-grandfather Chief Drowning Bear Yonaguska (1759-1839), first chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee during Indian Removals aka Trail of Tears. (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)
  • If I had an Indian Head cent or buffalo nickel for every person claiming a connection to the Cherokee tribe, I'd be filthy rich. (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)
  • However, the majority of people just can't find that connection to the Cherokee or any other tribe (and you can read my blog Native American Is Not That Into You to explore reasons why). (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)
  • This person was not interested in joining the Cherokee tribe (he was already a member) nor trying to prove if he was Native American (he already knew). (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)
  • My client is Cherokee and African-American. (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)
  • However since claiming Cherokee roots is so controversial I decided to preface my client's analysis with brief genealogical records of his claim but this blog focuses more on genetic admixture. (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)
  • When Warren's claims to Cherokee ancestry were scrutinized closely by genealogists, no one could find her ancestors among those named on the Dawes Roll, which the government intended to be a master list of Cherokee surnames, finalized in 1906. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • In the book, Warren weaves her "Native American heritage" (specific references to the Cherokee have now disappeared) into a narrative of working-class struggle, with her "mamaw and papaw" handing down stories and recipes from their days in Indian Territory. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Speaking at a Native American forum in Iowa, the surging Democratic presidential candidate now says she was wrong to insist on having Cherokee Indian heritage. (worldtribune.com)
  • Those stories, allegedly told by her "mama" and "papa," about coming from a family of persecuted Cherokee Indians were a figment of Warren's imagination. (worldtribune.com)
  • It appears to have been a region occupied by European men with Cherokee, wives or mixed bloods, who were predominantly Caucasian in ancestry. (accessgenealogy.com)
  • Citizens of the Oglala Sioux Tribe are weighing two big issues this week. (indianz.com)
  • Voters of the Oglala Sioux Tribe are being asked to approve the sale of alcohol at gaming establishments on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. (indianz.com)
  • 4. Your American Indian ancestors also may appear in other Ancestry.com databases, of course, but keep in mind that Indians aren't identified as such in the 1790 through 1840 US censuses. (familytreemagazine.com)
  • It's worth looking for your ancestors in the 1900 and 1910 federal censuses on Ancestry.com, however, because both included a page of extra questions labeled "Special Inquiries Relating to Indians. (familytreemagazine.com)
  • For example, some American Indians of the Northwest claimed that they should have sovereignty over the remains of the Kennewick man fossil under the assumption that because the bones were found in territory that their tribe once inhabited, that the remains had to be one of their tribal ancestors 1 . (evostudies.org)
  • There is an abiding tradition among these people that their ancestors were the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island, amalgamated with the Five Civilized Tribes of Eastern North Carolina. (dnaconsultants.com)
  • It is impossible to point out one particular tribe of Indians as their sole ancestors. (dnaconsultants.com)
  • My mother is African-American but we have a mix of European and a lot of mulatto ancestors. (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)
  • And then there's Aunt Bee, who told Liz Warren that her papaw had inherited high cheekbones from his Indian ancestors but did not passed them down to the little girl. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Some historians believe that the ancestors of the tribes making up the Abenaki confederacy first arrived in North America about three thousand years ago. (encyclopedia.com)
  • On the historical time scales that I'll be addressing our ancestors were considered Indians ("Hindus") by the rest of the world, and this seems a time where this clarity of terminology should trump contemporary geopolitical valences. (sepiamutiny.com)
  • The assertion that the American Constitution is based on the Constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy is very debatable. (backlash.com)
  • Accohanoc - A tribe of the Powhatan Confederacy , they formerly lived on the river of the same name in Accomac and Northampton Counties of Virginia . (legendsofamerica.com)
  • Brewington was certain of the fact that tribes in the mixed confederacy around Robeson County in North Carolina included descendants of the famous Lost Colony. (dnaconsultants.com)
  • The Abenaki (also called "Abanaki" or "Abnaki") were part of the Wabanaki Confederacy of five Algonquian-speaking tribes that existed from the mid-1600s to the mid-1800s. (encyclopedia.com)
  • During the 19th Century one of the federal government's policies that is very racist by our current standards was that full blooded Indians were Indian, half-blood Indians were "half breeds," and anything less was a "part-Indian" White, Black or Asian. (backlash.com)
  • The collection is strongest on records of tribes forcibly relocated to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) in the 19th century. (familytreemagazine.com)
  • When most of the Creeks were forcibly deported to the Indian Territory (Oklahoma,) they called a principal river through their lands, the Red River. (accessgenealogy.com)
  • As America's colonizers aggressively moved West in the name of Manifest Destiny, tribes were forcibly moved, and their dealings with the federal government ratified in hundreds of treaties. (lu.se)
  • Modern American Indian traditionalists vehemently reject the notion that they are derived from or share ancestry with any other human populations (especially Africans. (evostudies.org)
  • 3. Richer data may be waiting in tribal enrollment applications-government records of tribe members that began after passage of the Dawes Act in 1887. (familytreemagazine.com)
  • These criteria have nothing to do with tribal enrollment, but with ancestry and self-identity. (backlash.com)
  • The Abihka were the remnants of the 16th century "Chiefdom of Coosa," a powerful Native American chiefdom in Georgia . (legendsofamerica.com)
  • Moreover, American liberty was inspired by the liberty enjoyed by most Native American Indian tribes. (backlash.com)
  • Sen. Elizabeth Warren is sorry she claimed to be a Native American Indian. (worldtribune.com)
  • While it appears that she never benefited from affirmative action for minorities and stopped listing herself as a minority lawyer by 1995, she has refused to back away from claims of Native ancestry. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • The Europeans' immune systems simply developed to ward off the worst of some of the nastier diseases that incapacitated entire Native American populations. (todayifoundout.com)
  • We are looking at mobilizing five, maybe six states' with significant Native American populations and where there have been concerns over voter access and turnout, says OJ Semans, co-director of Four Directions voting rights advocacy group. (nativepartnership.org)
  • Ironically, unlike the Southern Baptist Convention (which is predominantly European American and was founded on segregationist principles), the NBC hasn't invested a great deal of energy in the Evolution/Creation debate. (evostudies.org)
  • According to details provided by a campaign aide after Warren's appearance at the National Indian Women Honor Luncheon, she introduced Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) chairwoman, Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, a tribal leader and former senior advisor to the assistant secretary of Indian Affairs during the Obama administration. (nativepartnership.org)
  • A lot of people scoffed at fair-skinned, blue-eyed Warren's claim of Native American heritage. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Appellants contend the juvenile court erred by failing to assure compliance with various provisions of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). (narf.org)
  • Lexi's birth father is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, which makes her case subject to the federal Indian Child Welfare Act. (abajournal.com)
  • To make their case known, the Pages have given more than 100 media interviews in which they reiterate their message: The Indian Child Welfare Act, originally intended to protect Native American children from overreaching by child welfare authorities, is now acting against many of those children's best interests. (abajournal.com)
  • But you'll also find records on tribes from other parts of the country, such as the Delaware, that eventually were pushed into Indian Territory. (familytreemagazine.com)
  • After their removal to the Indian Territory, Abihka refugees established a ceremonial stomp dance ground near Henryetta, Oklahoma . (legendsofamerica.com)
  • While the Native Americans were away from their New England territory, white settlers took over the land. (encyclopedia.com)
  • While the name of a particular individual may seem inconsequential, George Mingo's presence at St. Inigoes raises numerous questions about the role of people of American Indian and African descent-and indeed the challenges of applying contemporary ethnic or racial categories using documentary evidence 2 -in the Jesuits' Maryland Mission. (brill.com)
  • Fortunately, no proof of Native American descent is required on the Federal Census. (backlash.com)
  • yet, most Americans of native descent still feel some connection to their ancient heritage. (backlash.com)
  • A second change is the adoption of a new response option for respondents of Middle Eastern or North African (MENA) descent. (cdc.gov)
  • Most reasonable people will probably accede to the clear overwhelming descent of South Asian Muslims from the native people of the Indian subcontinent , but the genetics clinches that. (sepiamutiny.com)
  • Absentee Shawnee - The Absentee is a division of the Shawnee tribe who originally lived in the eastern United States, in Ohio , Indiana , Illinois , Kentucky , Tennessee , Pennsylvania , and other neighboring states. (legendsofamerica.com)
  • Today they are one of three Shawnee tribes in Oklahoma . (legendsofamerica.com)
  • Officially, American Indians comprise only about 1.5% of the American population. (backlash.com)
  • They were reported by the Canadian Indian Office to number 450 in 1878, after which date they are not officially mentioned. (legendsofamerica.com)
  • But a Black ancestry and genetics expert says most Black claims of being part Indian just aren't borne out in DNA testing. (debbieschlussel.com)
  • The history of Native Americans after the arrival of the pilgrims in 1620 is one of disenfranchisement, genocide, and forced migration. (lu.se)
  • He is half-Black and half-White, but everybody identifies him as Black, and history will remember him as America's first African-American president. (backlash.com)
  • America's native roots run deep, yet more Irish-Americans feel connected to their Irish roots than America's "part-Indians" do to theirs. (backlash.com)
  • There are many subcategories of Wannabes, but the most common member of the tribe we might call the Almost Native-the white person who claims one-sixteenth blood quantum, just enough to squeak by America's arbitrary racial standards that designate who is and is not a minority. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • In academic writing about Native American literature, one will find a variety of nomenclature to describe America's indigenous. (lu.se)
  • By 2000 that total rose to 2,544, and 6,012 people claimed some Abenaki heritage. (encyclopedia.com)
  • In the 2010 census, 569 people claimed Yuki ancestry. (wikipedia.org)
  • And the US Indian Census Rolls include those living on reservations anywhere, along with others who maintained formal ties with a tribe under federal supervision. (familytreemagazine.com)
  • 2010 Olympia, Wash. - If every American who is "part-Indian" checked "American Indian or Alaska Native" on question 9 of the 2010 Census, and wrote in the tribe from which they are descended, as their "Principal Tribe," this would change the complexion of the conversation about racism in America. (backlash.com)
  • If millions of Americans reclaim their Native roots in the US Census, it will send a message around the world and to future generations that we are not a racist nation, but remember our native roots and are proud of it. (backlash.com)
  • But I gotta give him credit for having the guts to tell the truth about a common myth among Black Americans , something he's proven to be false in genetic tests he conducts for his Palestinian Broadcasting System show, "Finding Your Roots. (debbieschlussel.com)
  • If you suspect you may have Native American roots based on family stories, here are five tips that may help you prove your claim. (familytreemagazine.com)
  • As a consequence, millions of Americans today are disenfranchised from their native roots. (backlash.com)
  • From its inception, America has had native roots. (backlash.com)
  • The Abenaki were a linguistic and geographic grouping rather than a single tribe. (legendsofamerica.com)
  • The Wippanap were the Abenaki , while the Tarratine were the same Indians or a part of them. (legendsofamerica.com)
  • The group known as Abenaki was actually a union of many tribes. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The western Abenaki tribes included the Sokoki, Cowasuck, and Missiquoi. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Though suspicious of the foreigners, many of the Abenaki tribes engaged in fur trade with Europeans, especially the French and the British. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The British tried to establish a colony on Abenaki land in 1607, but, partly because of hostile encounters with the tribes, the settlement lasted less than a year. (encyclopedia.com)
  • All this tension led the Abenaki tribes to fight among themselves, and their competition for trade with the French only compounded problems. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The French traded mostly with the Penobscot, who became the most powerful of the Abenaki tribes. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Tribes, organizations and enterprises in Indian Country are trying to conduct business and mitigate fears about the coronavirus. (indianz.com)
  • The Indian Health Service remains without a permanent leader as the coronavirus emerges as the latest crisis for the agency. (indianz.com)
  • The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation reopened their gaming facility after addressing fears connected to the coronavirus in Oregon. (indianz.com)
  • Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday made an unannounced appearance at a lunch on the sidelines of a major Native American conference in Washington. (nativepartnership.org)
  • It goes on to talk about Elizabeth Warren and why people exaggerate or invent an Indian identity. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • For the American Indians tribes, the anatomical or genetic evidence concerning Kennewick man was irrelevant. (evostudies.org)
  • I hope you don't view me any differently if you find out that I seem to have a close genetic relationship to South Indian Dalits ! (sepiamutiny.com)
  • Today they are enrolled members of the Round Valley Indian Tribes of the Round Valley Reservation. (wikipedia.org)
  • A major purpose of the ICWA is to protect 'Indian children who are members of or are eligible for membership in an Indian tribe. (narf.org)
  • Members of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe of Washington said the controversy over a tribal village has brought racist attitudes to the forefront once again. (indianz.com)
  • Similarly, there are more Indians in America than there are members of Indian tribes. (backlash.com)
  • There's also no shortage of dissenters ready to lynch you for daring to make such claims - I call dissenters belonging to Amerindian tribes members of the collective Ku Klux clan and non-Amerindian ones the Radical Anti-Indian Terrorists . (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)
  • With 17,000 enrolled members, we are the largest Indian tribe in Montana and one of the largest tribes in the United States. (americanindianpartnership.com)
  • Congress passed the ICWA in 1978 'to promote the stability and security of Indian tribes and families by establishing minimum standards for removal of Indian children from their families and placement of such children 'in foster or adoptive homes which will reflect the unique values of Indian culture. (narf.org)
  • For purposes of the ICWA, ' 'Indian child' means any unmarried person who is under age eighteen and is either (a) a member of an Indian tribe or (b) is eligible for membership in an Indian tribe and is the biological child of a member of an Indian tribe. (narf.org)
  • ICWA lays out special rules for custody and adoption cases involving children from federally recognized Indian tribes. (abajournal.com)
  • Being "part-Indian" meant they were not Indian, which meant that they could be disenfranchised from their native heritage and inheritance, because Indians, in those days, had neither citizenship nor property rights. (backlash.com)
  • Brewington was a strong original spokesman for American Indian heritage, but he was more. (dnaconsultants.com)
  • This work draws from a current controversy in contemporary American Indian art, which positions artists who claim their Native ancestry against those that prefer to minimize or even deny their Native heritage. (lenscratch.com)
  • It's more sought after than even the ubiquitous lust for any Native American heritage at all. (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)
  • For most Americans, the reasons have to do with national identity and changing the complexion of the conversation about racism. (backlash.com)
  • Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 78. (wikipedia.org)
  • The censuses were to be taken yearly from 1885 to 1940, though Bureau of Indian Affairs agents didn't always comply with Congress' order. (familytreemagazine.com)
  • To test penicillin's effectiveness in treating syphilis and other STDs, researchers led by Dr. John Charles Cutler from the United States (funded by the Public Health Services, the Pan American Health Sanitary Bureau, and the National Institutes of Health) headed to Guatemala in 1946 and found prostitutes who had syphilis, getting them to then give it to unsuspecting Guatemalan soldiers, mental health patients, and prisoners. (todayifoundout.com)
  • In a 2007 population of 301,621,000, that represents 1.5% of the total, making American Indians one of the smallest minority groups. (backlash.com)
  • Conservatives mocked her for identifying herself as a "Native American" minority during two stints at law schools in the 1990s. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • Here's how: She listed herself as a minority in the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) desk book for more than a decade. (worldtribune.com)
  • But by some estimates, more than half of all Americans today are "part-Indian. (backlash.com)
  • All were to be classed as Old Cherokees and distinguished from the more primitive Algonquian tribes along the coast. (dnaconsultants.com)
  • Often histories by amateurs state that the Cherokees always lived in Atlanta and North Fulton County. (accessgenealogy.com)
  • In 1856, the US government established the Indian reservation of Nome Cult Farm (later to become Round Valley Indian Reservation) at Round Valley. (wikipedia.org)
  • Many of these people are descendants of many local tribes and have come to be called Round Valley Indian Tribes. (wikipedia.org)
  • For generations, many nations, and even many Americans, have claimed that America is racist because it is numerically dominated by White people. (backlash.com)
  • If that is the case, then all those people who claim America is a racist nation will have to rethink their position. (backlash.com)
  • You don't find people claiming to be "part-Black" or "part-White. (backlash.com)
  • Stories of this liberty inspired people around the world long before the American Revolution. (backlash.com)
  • For example, American Indian creation narratives claim that their great spirit created their people on their ancestral tribal land. (evostudies.org)
  • Jones is the co-curator for the exhibition For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw at the National Museum of the American Indian. (lenscratch.com)
  • Why Do So Many People Pretend to Be Native American? (bluecorncomics.com)
  • I am, for example, kind of tired of listening to brown people talk about their non-Indian ancestry, whether it be Syrian Christians who claim Jewish antecedents, Jatts who claim Scythian antecedents, or Muslims who claim Arab, Turk, or Persian origins. (sepiamutiny.com)
  • Second, I do know that finding ancestry from various groups can change how people view themselves. (sepiamutiny.com)
  • It showed that she was essentially 1/1024th Indian - someone 10 generations ago in her family had Native American blood. (worldtribune.com)
  • Hence, it is extremely common to hear an Asian, Black or Caucasian American say, "I'm part-Indian, but I can't prove it," or words to that effect. (backlash.com)
  • She said it was family lore that taught her about being of Native American ancestry. (worldtribune.com)
  • Greg H. asks: Diseases from Europe wiped out most of the Indians, so why didn't the Europeans also get wiped out by diseases from America? (todayifoundout.com)
  • So why didn't 19 out of 20 Europeans die from Native American diseases? (todayifoundout.com)
  • Second, Europeans lived in more densely populated areas than Native Americans. (todayifoundout.com)
  • All of these things resulted in Europeans being regularly exposed to many more pathogens than Native Americans were. (todayifoundout.com)
  • Ababco - An eastern Algonquian tribe or sub-tribe, this group initially lived on the Choptank River in Maryland when first encountered by Europeans. (legendsofamerica.com)
  • Was the name "Mingo" a marker of his ancestry or spoken language, like "Portuguese Joseph," enslaved at St. Inigoes in 1768-69? (brill.com)
  • His research thus challenges the idea that the indirect effects of European colonization were the leading cause of population decline and mass death for Native Americans. (wikipedia.org)
  • And for showing a form of racial resentment: that many Blacks are disappointed when they learn how much White European blood they have (including Cory Booker, the New Jersey Mayor who recently cuddled up to Muslims and attacked the NYPD for conducting legitimate terrorism investigations that saved American lives). (debbieschlussel.com)
  • Newark Mayor Cory Booker discovers he is 47% African, 45% European, and 7% Asian or Native American. (debbieschlussel.com)
  • For example, African-American guests are often surprised at how much European blood they carry and their lack of significant Native American ancestry. (debbieschlussel.com)
  • It's believed that one Native American disease did slip on to the European ships and sailed onward to Europe doing some major damage in the process. (todayifoundout.com)
  • Now don't get me wrong, I would be happy to have some Indian genes, to help breakup my seemingly 100% European ancestry. (jeaniesgenealogy.com)
  • I received 20 plus percent of Native American DNA on my AncestryDNA results which wasn't a surprise being that my grandmother was 15/16 and 1/16 European. (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)
  • In fact, most whites or European-Americans have more Native Indian blood than she does. (worldtribune.com)
  • Kenneth Roemer claims that all the typical labels associated with indigenous peoples "pose ethical and descriptive problems because they impose European concepts and language that. (lu.se)
  • Chief among those is Carter v. Washburn , a civil rights lawsuit filed in July 2015 against Kevin Washburn (then the assistant secretary of Indian Affairs) by the Goldwater Institute, a conservative nonprofit whose mission includes limiting government. (abajournal.com)
  • The Montana Indian Education Association has proposed spending $23 million over the next two years to carry out the act. (indianz.com)
  • Those feminists who complain about the "historic oppression" of women, as demonstrated by how long it took for women to get the vote, generally ignore that women got the vote years before American Indians did. (backlash.com)
  • Tom Jones , an artist, educator and author based in Madison, has explored his Native American culture for years in a variety of ways. (lenscratch.com)
  • Treaty violation, however, does not nullify their legality, and Native American tribes to this day still live under the laws and restrictions that have controlled their sovereignty for hundreds of years. (lu.se)
  • As an African American scientist, I had always suspected that the response to this question amongst those of my own ethnicity would be even higher. (evostudies.org)
  • So for my inaugural Admixture Centrifuge series, this allowed me the perfect opportunity to examine how the Cherokee's Native American component breaks down on ethnicity admixture calculators. (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)
  • In 1986, she personally handwrote "American Indian" as her race/ethnicity on her Texas bar registration card. (worldtribune.com)
  • If that description doesn't help, thi nk of Shadowland as a sort of branch library of the Denver Data Haven the North American nexus of information, assistance and data exchange, free to anyone who can find it. (nighthawks.org.uk)
  • The Trump administration's disjointed tribal homelands policy continues to crumble amid scrutiny in the courts and in Indian Country. (indianz.com)
  • Her remarks came amid continued scrutiny of the Massachusetts senator's past claims to Native ancestry. (nativepartnership.org)
  • The House Education Funding Committee was told the state must fully fund a constitutional mandate to educate all students about Indian history and culture. (indianz.com)
  • A long posting discusses Iron Eyes Cody, possibly the most famous Indian wannabe in history. (bluecorncomics.com)
  • In 2009, the United States Federal Government issued an "acknowledgement and apology," acknowledging a "long history of official depredations and ill-conceived policies" in its dealings with Native Americans (Congress.gov). (lu.se)
  • All Native Americans withstanding the onslaught of the "scum of the Eastern Sea," as Tecumseh called whites, experience rapid, systematic admixture, violent cultural assault and traumatic identity loss. (dnaconsultants.com)
  • I also wanted to know if my client's admixture results could tell us anything about the Cherokee's ancient origins vis a vis did they migrate from Great Lakes region of US/Canada or had they been in the American Southeast for millenniums? (rootsandrecombinantdna.com)
  • He is examining how American Indian culture is represented through popular culture and raises questions about these depictions of identity by non-natives and Natives alike. (lenscratch.com)
  • To ensure our readers stay informed of the news and culture in Native American communities across the country, we've compiled our favorite stories from the month of February. (nativepartnership.org)
  • This tradition is supported by their looks, their complexion, straight black hair, their eyes, by the manners, customs and habits, and by the fact that while they are, in part, of undoubted Indian origin, they have no Indian language and know but little of Indian customs and habits (p. 15). (dnaconsultants.com)
  • It forced thousands of Yuki and other local tribes onto these lands, often without sufficient support for the transition. (wikipedia.org)
  • The term Achumawi was also used by some historically by all the Pit River Indians. (legendsofamerica.com)
  • Was it an African name, or perhaps a moniker that marked his connection with Iroquoian-speaking American Indians such as Susquehannocks (sometimes called Mingos)? (brill.com)
  • By 1837 the entire tribe had dwindled to a few individuals of mixed Indian and African blood. (legendsofamerica.com)
  • Later, they became mixed with African Americans , and what was left of them was driven off during the Nat Turner insurrection in about 1833. (legendsofamerica.com)
  • How Does Creationism Harm African Americans? (evostudies.org)
  • To address this suspicion I recently contacted the Peter Hart and Bill McInturff polling organization and asked for the response percentages for African Americans. (evostudies.org)
  • These data validate what I have always known, African Americans are ½ as likely as the general population to accept evolution as a valid explanation and 1.4 times more likely to accept the Biblical account. (evostudies.org)
  • Finally within Biblical account, the literalist explanation (6 days) was 76% about the same as the general population (but remember a larger percentage of African Americans reject evolution. (evostudies.org)
  • The majority of African Americans belong to Protestant denominations that are fundamentalist. (evostudies.org)
  • Despite its relatively progressive stance compared to the SBC, I argue here that the fundamentalism of the NBC is causing harm to the African American community. (evostudies.org)
  • Specifically its fundamentalist views make it more difficult to attract talented African American students into careers in science (specifically those disciplines in science that may contradict fundamentalist doctrine, e.g. (evostudies.org)
  • Most respondents were either Black/African American (26), White (25) or MENA (23). (cdc.gov)
  • True, there is quite often a clear trace of Middle Eastern and African ancestry among the Muslims of South Asia above and beyond what may be found amongst non-Muslims, but often this component is dwarfed by a minor East Asian element which seems to warrant no cultural memory! (sepiamutiny.com)
  • Many of the records that Ancestry offers are due to a partnership with the Oklahoma Historical Society that added and indexed millions of Native American records on the site. (familytreemagazine.com)
  • If you take out the words "tribal" and "Indian" all you have left are patients fighting a federal agency for health care. (indianz.com)
  • Federal agents promoted the use of the term, "part-Indian," and it became part of the common vernacular. (backlash.com)
  • The publication of a text so carefully constructed with legally non-binding terms and saturated with use of the passive voice was, to many Native Americans, unsurprising in the context of dealings between Native American tribes and the Federal Government. (lu.se)
  • Native warriors sniped from the woods to the east of the muddy little settlement, while a cannon from the American warship Decatur shelled them in return. (historylink.org)
  • The French explorer Daniel Greysolon Sieur du Lhut included them in a list of nations living north of Lake Superior in 1684. (legendsofamerica.com)
  • The old tribes and nations are now being completely transformed and reshuffled. (dnaconsultants.com)