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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I am not sure where your MIL lived. I grew up in the South. If you were any part "not white" then you were considered that other race. It is ridiculous and it doesn't make sense. Obviously Warren looked white. My BF in elementary school would always tell me how she was part Navajo. She had a story in her family very similar to Warren. She was not a member of a tribe.

NOW as pp points out it would be considered appropriation if she said it to anyone. At the time it was seen as having a rich history, like how suddenly everyone really identifies with their distant Irish ancestor on St. Patrick's day.

Times have changed dramatically and we all know better now, and we all are doing better. 
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I, too, grew up in the South. And, I am likely much older than you. That one drop rule did not apply to "Indian" blood.  I had plenty of friends who claimed NA ancestry--but they were considered white.  Whether they really had NA ancestry or not, I don't know.   Some was likely folklore--just like Warren's family.  However, many, many Americans do have NA ancestry that do not write it on their legal documents.  Why?  Because they are mostly white and the NA blood went back generations.

And of course a lot of white people in the South claim Native American blood, because they have African-American ancestry and don't want to claim that, so they claim Native American ancestry.

The Cherokees were the most prevalent tribe and they were driven out of the South in Jackson's Trail of Tears.  
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