Pure native americans?

Question

I have met a lot people who say they are native americans, but all of them are probably 1/2 to 1/16 to indistinguiable. Are there any "pure" or 100% native americans? And what do they look like

Answer 1

Since I was born in America, I'm now pure 100% native American. The OTHER native Americans have ancestors who were here a little LONGER than mine were, is all. We don't have tribes, we now have 'clans' (family names and ancestors by that family name). Smiths are of the Smith Clan.

Answer 2

Are we living in a world of muggles and wizards? Because if so then I'm a mudblood.



Sorry, on a more serious note....

Does it matter? If someone is an enrolled tribal member or an enrolled tribal descendent member then they're Native. By law. It's even better and more encouraged for them to learn the language and other significant parts of their culture.



There are elders (and even young people) who are "full-blood" (lol Malfoy), but in my tribe sometimes the tribal members who are older and "full-blood" don't really know much about their ancestors and culture because it was encouraged that they not in order to fit in with the miners and loggers who migrated to our ancestral territories. So it's more common from my experience to run into a descendent member or a younger member with more "blood" of a tribe who knows about their tribe than someone who is full-blooded but older.

Answer 3

Do you know anybody who is "pure" or "100% white"? I don't.



In order to legally claim to be native American, one must be an enrolled tribal citizenship. Having a story about a great-grandma who was Cherokee doesn't make you native American.



People don't come in fractions or percentages. You aren't 1/2 American citizen, are you?



If you have tribal citizenship, then you ARE native American. That's it. If you don't have tribal citizenship, then all you have is family folklore, and a story about native ancestors. It doesn't make YOU native.

Answer 4

There ARE 100% indians, but only on the reserves. Any who live in public have certainly had a recent ancestor who wasn't native. Even most native Hawaiians aren't 100% native. SOME are, but few.

Answer 5

I agree with Roman on this one and wonder why blood quantum is something that is on some non natives minds. If someone has some indigenous blood that is fine and if there are some that are not full blooded, but are enrolled into a tribe then there is nothing that anyone can do about it at all.

Answer 6

I have never understood why non Natives are always so concerned about our "racial purity"! WTH is up with that? You folks talk as though we are some sort of animal whose blood lines need to remain constant to ensure pedigree. So what do you consider "pure"? Many of us are mixed within other tribal groups. Maybe 2 or 3 tribal backgrounds in their family. Are they "pure" or not? What if we are mixed with Mexican, who are more or less Amerindian background, "pure"? How about you? Are you "pure"?

Answer 7

i would assume alot live on the navajo reserve;and other areas with a large native poppulace; and they mostly but not all have high cheekbones; dark complexion; dark hair and eyes; and many with the epicanthic fold; especially some who were code talkers; no offense; alot of celebrities; like wes studi, adam beach, and veteran ones; like chief dan george, will sampson; etc.

Answer 8

There are still some in South Dakota.



I have a few unmixed native american facebook contacts, they live in South Dakota.