Why do white people pretend to be half cherokee?

Maybe because basically all you need to do is be able to read and Universities fall over themselves trying to give you scholarships. Affirmative action for native indians is much stronger than for blacks

I don't pretend to be anything... I look 100% white. My father on the other hand does not. Here is a photo of my parents with my older brother judge for yourself.

http://i1268.photobucket.com/albums/jj562/drixnot3...

My father is most likely part Mohawk as grandma was living near a reservation in Michigan, long story short my dad looks nothing like the man grandma married 8 months before he was born.

And one final thing... yes there WERE tribes that WERE considered white living in the US. The main problem is that race is a subjective thing ... what one person called white another might call tan, or someone might say black when a person is in fact brown... it is a matter of opinion unless you get out a color wheel to make a comparison and assign them a number as if they were a gallon of paint.

@ Misha ... actually the slaves owned by Indians are mentioned in the treaties signed with the US government. If they kick out the black indians at this point I say they should lose those treaties and they lose the casinos too. The straight up truth is that they LIKED have the blacks listed as indians when the censuses were assigning government funding and it is only recently that they want to kick them out of the tribes... and it has ALLOT to do with tribal politics and voting rights.

Half would be obvious. But I have done a few dozen family tree, ancestry searches for people and you'd be amazed at how many Americans do have some native American blood mixed in their family tree. Most of the ones I've found for clients were very distant, say like their great great great great great grandmother was half Choctaw or Cherokee. The families I did the work for were amazed, and some taken back, to find this out.

In reality I think you'd be very hard pressed to find a truly complete and pure 'white blooded' person in the US.

I am white but I have a lot of Cherokee in me but alpt of people think I'm half Japanese or have Asian in me . I have blonde hair and blue eyes .

I know, right...The Cherokee Nation had some "Dog the Bounty Hunter" douchebag deciding who is or isn't Native American. B8tch, please.

Misha: And I'm 1/4 Mohawk and proud of it! Native American tribes are being infiltrated by a bunch of (pardon my French) White people who want to profit from casinos and land deals. You can't tell me that Seth Moneymaker has any more right to recognized than the Cherokee Freedmen...Or any of the Blacks listed on the Dawes Rolls. White people nearly exterminated First/Aboriginal Peoples...Now their progeny are trying to finish the job.

Some should try and hide. I love white people. Especially white men. Their nice. They have been to me anyway. But there are some dozes out there. Id be so afraid to walk down the same side of the Street with.

The "Strange Man of the Oglalas" was reputed to be very light complected and his hair was not typical of a Lacota. There are no verifiable pictures of him to prove that but there are many written records of people who knew him.

A lot of Native American laws (in the tribes that still maintain independent nation status), a small percentage of native blood is all it takes.

I knew a guy in Georgia that was a Chief, and he was 1/32 of whatever tribe he was in. They all lived in double wide trailers and rode motorcycles around everywhere. Very legit indian stuff.

I'm 1/4 Cherokee and proud of it!

Blacks started claiming Indian blood as soon as Indians started opening casinos and making money: FACT!

I think you only need 1/8 Native American blood to get the freebies.

It's good to know how to take advantage of Libtard policy.

So you want him to have a feather in his head and look like Jacob from Twilight?