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He is now denying the validity of dna tests. I don’t want to say the past 35 years of having him treat me worse than he treats his sister had anything to do with his assumptions of my dna, but he was upset to learn that I am more Irish than him. I wonder what he thought of my mother before these results…
I was also told our family was part Cherokee. It's apparently a super common claim
I'm struggling to process that this is so common... Also had this in my family growing up
You hear it so much that frankly when I hear it I assume they're lying. Like it's become that stereotype.
My mother always claimed that some amount of greats-grandmother was a Cherokee princess, but I've always thought it was bunk.
Definitely bunk because there were no Cherokee princesses. Could still have some sort of Native American ancestry but that whole Cherokee Princess thing was so overused at one point that it became a trope.
It's unstated racism.
If someone in your past could get a good tan, it was common to say that they were part "< insert native american tribe from your area>" because you definitely didn't want to be perceived as part black.
Look up the "one-drop rule".
I'm sure that was a factor in many of these instances. That said in our family my impression was it was more of a "here's something special about us" type thing, like there's nothing otherwise noteworthy.
That's generally how these things are always communicated to later generations. 😂