This is a lie. Best estimate I've seen is 1/256 or more.
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Replying to @mr_archenemy @St_Rev
Looking at Breitbart, it's just the first (or second) Globe correction. They later corrected their correction (again?) to between 1/64 and 1/1024 or something.
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Replying to @unorthodoxxxy @mr_archenemy
They also used Canadian reference genomes, very likely because modern Cherokees are highly admixed with European and African ancestry. Warren's sample comes in between the Mexican and Canadian samples on a PCA plot, which is exactly what one would expect from unadmixed Cherokee.
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Replying to @unorthodoxxxy @mr_archenemy
In my view it depends entirely what you mean by 'Cherokee'. With extremely high probability (like 99.99%+) she has a significant amount of Native ancestry. That ancestry is probably from the continental US. Since she's from Oklahoma, that's probably Cherokee.
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There are some confounds (like there's a plausible but very weak argument it could be Siberian ancestry via Scandinavia) and it's very unlikely that it can be pinned down to a specific tribe unless they find actual matching Cherokee relatives.
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There's also a legal/moral/spiritual/supernatural argument that being Cherokee is a mystic status conferred by the tribe itself and if some oil contract manager in Oklahoma disavows her, that's the end of it. Some people take this argument seriously.
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A lot of the activism here is driven by a handful of tribal councils who've lucked into extremely valuable concessions and spend most of their time fending off people trying to claim a piece of it. The poor downtrodden act is useful in that respect.
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