How many people in North America have Native American ancestry? And do they embrace their roots and culture?
Most people in of every ethnicity in the Southeastern U.S. who have ancestry there for at least 4 generations will have Native ancestry. While it is seldom commented on due to modern historical revisionism that insists that the South was full of racism across the board this is simply not so. The history of Native Americans in the South is very different from elsewhere in the U.S. The “Five civilized tribes” all lived among and traded with the whites and even assimilated their culture to some degree. The Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Cherokee were all on good terms with the Europeans and in fact the two former did not wage war on whites until they chose sides in the American Civil War. The Chickasaw and Choctaw were in fact paid a handsome sum for their land and relocated originally on their terms. In the aftermath of the American civil war this of course changed. The intermingling of genes that is pervasive was probably not on such happy and neighborly terms. In fact the trail of tears will
