http://nativesnewsonline.com/2017/04/16/dna-scientists-claim-that-cherokees-are-from-the-middle-east/

THoughts? Do you think this will go anywhere?

DNA Consultants lab referenced in the article is not a credible source.

Here are several previous RFM posts that might give you some more info.

Mann Hopewell Site and Hebraic DNA in the Cherokee Nation January 21, 2016
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1758171,1758171#msg-1758171

Why does my TBM mom think Eastern U.S. Indian tribes show Jewish DNA? October 20, 2015
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1697572,1697572#msg-1697572

Are Cherokees of Middle-Eastern descent? January 24, 2015
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1495042,1495042#msg-1495042

Cherokees have Middle Eastern DNA?? November 17, 2014
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1434665,1434665#msg-1434665

Rod Meldrum, Joe Sitting Owl and the Central Band of Cherokee August 8, 2014
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1347670,1347670#msg-1347670

New DVD about Jewish DNA found in Native American remains January 15, 2011
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,81671,81671#msg-81671

It's complete bullshit.
Also the Iroquois do not have european DNA

Since every white person in the US wants to claim that they are descended from a Cherokee princess, I think it's only fair.

But two wrongs don't make a right.

William Law Wrote:
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> Since every white person in the US wants to claim
> that they are descended from a Cherokee princess,
> I think it's only fair.

This "Cherokee princess" thing was never true, and in the 21st century is very close to (if not over the line) to being an unfounded slur.

There are undoubtedly millions of American citizens who are descendants of Cherokee ancestors...both in the [now] general North Carolina area, and in [now] Oklahoma and surrounding states areas, as well as probably every state (and at least most every county) in the United States: wherever those ancestors and descendants of ancestors went (such as the migrations during the Great Depression, which means mostly California), and the states THOSE descendants may have since migrated to.

We are basically everywhere and, to my knowledge, none of us are [or have ever been] "princesses." ;)

My mother knew her Cherokee paternal grandmother personally, as did her sister, my aunt. There are millions of Americans who are exactly like me (maybe a generation or two more removed).



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 04/29/2017 11:04PM by Tevai.

It is plausible that over the last 1000 years some form of European or other DNA could have been incorporated into the Native American DNA pool.

Vikings, fishermen blown off course, shipwrecked sailors, early traders, trappers etc could have chosen to live with atribe here or there.

But that does not mean that as a people the tribe originated from Europe.