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[–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Yep. And so many white people here claim native ancestry. "I'm 1/16th Cherokee" they'll say. Usually it is Cherokee because that's the group their parents or grandparents had heard of and told them. I think it comes from trying to absolve the guilty feelings of what the settlers did to the natives.

The genealogy conversations are just tiring and predictable.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    So many! I think it was possibly, a almost pop culture trend in the 70s to claim native history tbh. So many folks I met who do this would have been teens/young adults in that time. But you're probably right, it's some warped cope for the atrocities committed against native people. Fucking warped.

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