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Old March 13th, 2008, 11:29 PM   #84 (permalink)
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And right after them, the people who claim American Indian ancestry. I had a Native American Anthropology teacher who noted that an astonishing percentage of the public claimed to have American Indian ancestry, but curiously it tended to be tribes with romantic sounding names. Cherokee. Apache. He had never run into an American who claimed Flathead tribal ancestry.
...and wouldn't you know it, I also have an infinitesimal amount of Cherokee in my family tree. My great-great grandmother Arvila Rogers was born in Oklahoma and was either full or half Cherokee. There's a fair chance that she was related to Will Rogers as well.

Might as well get famous people in there, too. My great-grandfather's sister was married to Buffalo Bill Cody's brother. No lie!



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