# What's your tribe? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 31, 2010, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tribe/565898 "2010-12-31T01:11:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tribe/565898/21 "2011-01-01T00:49:09Z")
My dad has some small percentage of Mi’kmaq, from Nova Scotia. ---
**Author:** ![InterestedObserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@InterestedObserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InterestedObserver)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tribe/565898/22 "2011-01-01T00:55:41Z")
Me? None that I know. My kids have some small percentage of Blackfoot from their late father. Again as far as I know, the only non-European blood on either side. When I was a kid, I REALLY wanted to be an Indian. Alas…😛 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tribe/565898/23 "2011-01-01T02:06:14Z")
1/128 Cherokee. My dad was on the rolls, but I never bothered. My connection to the tribe is very well-documented. My grandmother was a Ross. And \*her \*grandfather was Chief William P. Ross, nephew of Chief John Ross. Some of the artifacts that are now in the Murrell Home in Park Hill I can remember being in my grandmother’s house in Tahlequah when I was growing up. ---
**Author:** ![moejoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@moejoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moejoe)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tribe/565898/24 "2011-01-01T02:18:46Z")
Osage. One grandparent was 1/2, so that doesn’t leave much for me. I’m also French and Irish though, so it’s a nice mix. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tribe/565898/25 "2011-01-01T02:41:01Z")
Got nothin’. However, I think it’s easier to get a Metis card than a driver’s license around here, so I could probably claim something. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tribe/565898/26 "2011-01-01T02:48:50Z")
I am half-Let, one quarter Saxon, and one quarter Friesian. Of course, those are European Tribes. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tribe/565898/27 "2011-01-01T02:56:19Z")
I’m from a group of Sarcastic people. Apparently there are alot of us around. ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tribe/565898/28 "2011-01-01T04:07:09Z")
Huron probably on my birth father’s side. Otherwise a mix of germanic and far eastern european. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tribe/565898/29 "2011-01-01T13:46:25Z")
Mom’s grandmother, on her father’s side, full blood Cree. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tribe/565898/30 "2011-01-03T19:36:18Z")
According to my late mother, we have some Algonquin (NE US and Quebec) in our background, but her sister (my aunt, now the official matriarch of the famdamly) says ‘not so.’ Without hard evidence to back this up - and if there is, none of us kidlets have ever seen it, but Mom was way better at studying this stuff than the rest of us - it remains a item of curiosity among us. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tribe/565898/31 "2011-01-03T19:41:31Z")
Angles, Saxons, Franks. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tribe/565898/32 "2011-01-03T20:48:52Z")
1/32 Cherokee, doubt if the family has any proof of it. I’ve voluntarily joined the Jewish tribe. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tribe/565898/33 "2011-01-03T20:53:14Z")
The genealogical research my father has done indicates that I am 1/16 Native American. I’m not sure which tribe, probably from the Alabama area. I have no real proof though. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tribe/565898/34 "2011-01-04T03:54:50Z")
We supposedly have a smidgen of Choctaw or Chickasaw, I don’t remember which. ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tribe/565898/35 "2011-01-04T04:10:43Z")
My grandfather was Choctaw. ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tribe/565898/36 "2011-01-04T04:18:47Z")
My paternal grandfather was 1/4 Cherokee and his father (according to non-detailed family legend) refused to sign up for the rolls when he had the opportunity - not sure why. My grandfather’s family was from Oklahoma. BTW, the g.grandfather who didn’t sign up, my father, myself and all of my three siblings are or were flaming redheads. But my grandfather definitely was darker skinned and had some Native American-like features. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tribe/565898/37 "2011-01-04T04:22:08Z")
My dad’s maternal grandmother was Choctaw, he says he mostly just has vague memories of her straight, long black hair. The strange thing is that only until about two years ago, I thought I was an eighth Cherokee. Apparently my dad just figured it was close enough, and never really felt the need to specify. Also, while browsing the Cherokee wikipedia page, I came across this line: “The Cherokee Nation, under the leadership of Principal Chief Chad Smith…” Chad Smith? The principal chief’s name is Chad Smith? Is there a whiter name in the entire world? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tribe/565898/38 "2011-01-04T04:34:40Z")
1/16th Lakota. For reasons only obvious in context, my father’s family buried that they were mixed blood. It just wasn’t a good thing to be back in the day. Hell, about 10 years ago at a Thanksgiving dinner my mother made some nasty comment about how she would never have married my father had she known. I cannot even remember the slur she used but it shocked the hell out of me. The fact that she did this in front of my younger sister’s Nigerian friend was even more astonishing. ---
**Author:** ![Peeta\_Mellark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Peeta\_Mellark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peeta_Mellark)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tribe/565898/39 "2011-01-04T04:37:55Z")
Allegedly I’m 1/32 Shawnee on my mother’s side, but there’s no proof. What I’d really like to do is get somebody on my paternal side to do [one of these](http://www.africanancestry.com/matriclan.html) and get an idea of where our African ancestry came from. ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tribe/565898/40 "2011-01-04T06:03:01Z")
My Great grandmother was full blooded **Wyandotte**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tribe/565898.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-tribe/565898.md?page=3)