Can b + blood type indicate native american decent?
Nope…most Natives are type O…and while type B is rare in all populations, it is even more so in Native American populations. Also, having “knowledge” that someone was Cherokee means only ONE thing: that you have documentation that an ancestor was recognized as a tribal citizen – i.e. the family was known and had Cherokee political affiliation and were members of an intact Cherokee community. If you are a middle aged person…this means GG gramma was probably born sometime in the latter half of 1800s…this means that she (or her direct family members) would have to be from Qualla community (Eastern Band) or Cherokee Nation (E. Oklahoma). After 1839, the vast majority of Cherokees were in these two locations. The myth of the “hiding out” ancestor is just a fairy tale. There were only several hundred, mostly mixed bloods married to non-Cherokees, that chose to stay in the East during Removal. These were mostly people already integrated into mainstream American society. The number of
