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[–] VAT 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

Trump has more Indian blood than Elizabeth Warren (Pocahontas)... and President Trump HAS NONE.

[–] Empire_of_the_mind 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

I've never in my life found a white american with a "cherokee ancestor" who could back it up, and neither has anyone else. From my research it appears that basically everyone living in that part of Oklahoma near Indians claims tribal connection by osmosis rather than any familial relation. All data shows that nearly all American Indian DNA in white Americans comes from the western states with high Indian populations (SD, NM, etc). Not Oklahoma or anywhere in the east. Most likely the scattered assimilation that occurred in the 1700's and prior is so diluted and insignificant that it barely registers. This of course further proves that the Indian population in the USA was never large, probably 2 million at best when Europeans arrived.

[–] VAT 1 point 3 points (+4|-1) ago 

Allure of claim, or perhaps indian rights to federal entitlement programs create this. Its common in negros to claim, but your science paper shows Blacks rarely have indian dna admixture (under 1 % overall).

2 million at best when Europeans arrived.

In 1650 it was 5 million tops WORLDWIDE. For USA pre-disease pre 1492 it was 1,150,000 according to 1928 science calculations by Mooney in 1928 publication in "Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico"

1,150,000 pre 1492 in USA region, one TENTH or less after diseases of 1500s, then census of 1900 showed 230,306, and TODAY this year in 2019 the number of USA Indians on welfare alone is about 2 million (have tribal card, official document)

https://web.archive.org/web/20170711152918/https://www.ok.gov/re-entry/IDENTIFICATION/Certificate_of_Degree_of_Indian_or_Alaska_Native_Blood_(CDIB)/

IN USA official census (and reservations were accurately counted due to fed programs) :

https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/censushistory/2016/01/25/native-americans-and-the-census/

The 1900 census was the first census all Native Americans were enumerated, regardless of tribal affiliations or where they lived : 230,306

230,306 in 1900.

523,591 in 1960.

1.42 million by 1980

1,878,285 people identifying themselves as American Indian in the 1990 census (almost twice as many as in min 1570s pre-USA.

Thornton, R. 1987. a American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press

Meyer, M.L., and R. Thornton 1991. The blood quantum quandary. Unpublished paper presented at the 1991 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (Pacific Coast Branch), Kona, HI.

So yes.... if we start the clock at 1492, prior to 90% disease die-off it was 1,150,000 pre 1492 in USA region. Then 90% of that immediately died, creating very very few left across current USA.

[–] BordelonLoop 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

might wanna check out some folks in appalachia.