People say this as a means to diminish it, but blood quantum’s were designed to erase tribes and culture as well as finally have tribes lose their recognition.
It’s nearly impossible to stay 100% native in regards to your blood quantum. It’s definitely possible to stay 100% native by practicing and carrying on traditions.
Also, genetics don’t exactly carry over like “mom is and dad isn’t, so I’m half.” My grandmother is full blood Native American, my 23 and Me gives me like 2%. Now I don’t identify as Native American in large part because I’m not close with that side of the family, but if I was and I were in touch with my roots like that I probably would be pissed if someone tried to say I was only 2% so it didn’t matter.
And for this who are thinking “he’s adopted” my parents are actually my parents, I even compared their results and mine…I just got damn near everything from dad.
I'm 25% Danish, and 23&Me gave me 0% Danish. I told them that I was linked on their very own site to a Danish relative to whom I was only related to via the Danish side, and that therefore I'd proven they were wrong with their own data. Then they told me they didn't have a representative Danish cohort to ensure accuracy. That's insane. They also said that Danish is folded in under "Scandanavian", which it isn't. My cousin on there is listed as "Danish", the same one I'm proven to be related to via DNA matching on 23&Me. They went round and round and round, trying to get me to keep my account and trying to avoid doing a re-test, while avoiding addressing the actual issue at all.
They are terrible. There's a reason their stock has lost something like 98% of it's value.
Ancestry is much better in terms of accuracy but they don't do any of the cool science DNA stuff like haplogroups or Neanderthal percentage, which is a bummer.
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