"Of the 1,500 university educators listed as Native American at the time, said Bill Cross, who helped found the American Indian/Alaska Native Professors Association, 'we're looking realistically at one-third of those being Indians.'"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/magazine/cherokee-native-american-andrea-smith.html …
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One was risky. One made you "interesting."
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Might be a corollary of the "noble savage" trope.
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Perhaps a mix of "noble savage" and "my g-g-..-grandparent was an adventurer trapper like Jeremiah Johnson"?
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I think it was always racism. My Oklahoma side of the family told a whole Cherokee story (like so many white folks in OK do!) until one relative did a DNA test and found out that that ancestor was Black. I think technology is finally bringing out the truth.
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I think first, few of us are "pure" anything. And last I heard, some American Indians, especially in California, are still rejecting DNA tests as proof of tribal affiliation. In the absence of proof, then, comes plausibility. And racist notions about skin color often suffice.
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The figure who embodies the contrasting approaches is Asa "Little Tree" Carter.
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As for why it's been that way: I'm sure there's a bunch of different reasons, but I think a big one is that a lot of whites mentally relegate Natives to a romantic past.
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