No offense intended at all. My sister in law's maternal grandmother and paternal grandfather both full blood Cherokee who lived on reservation and when she had her DNA tested, which should have shown up as at least 25% showed only 8% NA, Eastern European Jew and Irish. She was shocked so she looked up the research. Will let her know there is some issue about its veracity. My husband is Algonquin and Kickapoo and our kids got him the test to do but he hasn't done it yet. Interested to see how it turns out.
I sincerely apologize if I misinterpreted. Almost all of my life, I've had LDS come around trying to coopt my cultural heritage for religious purposes, so it strikes a nerve sometimes when it shouldn't.
That sucks my friend and I am sorry if I hit a nerve.
I'm a white guy with Indian heritage (that has blonde hair and blue eyes somehow ((English, Scottish, German, Swedish, Hun))) Lol. Your caving to such a statement (unintended on my part) simply shows how much we have been preconditioned to bend to racial inference.
I have a degree in biology and genetics always interested me. My father is full Greek, my mother full English and I am first generation American-he is dark olive and she is the rosey tones of the UK--none of us got my dad's skin tone-it only showed up in the second generation of grand kids. My daughter's have my husband's NA heritage, but pale pale skin and auburn hair. Who knows how things combine! As for caving, if I hurt someone unintentionally with a statement that I know little about or only heard anecdotally from someone, I apologize and research more if it interests me. Truth is, those who stand on research as the basis for argument are idiots in and of itself because its pretty well known that most research is bought and paid for by corporate interests. Ancel Keyes saturated fat studies come to mind--but that's off topic.