>>3932891within the cultural contexts of the south, we're "white", but both sides of my family (in particular my dads) have some Ndn ancestry.
French, Welsh, Waccamaw, Creek, Choctaw, and English on my dads, Scottish, English, and Coree/Lumbee/Catawban on my moms.
It's a bit of an untold but obvious story to the south, and the other side of the coin to the "cherokee princess" myth every white person supposedly believes (internet claims)
A lot of mixed families traveled from Virginia/The Carolinas into the old Southwest (Mississippi/Lousiana territories) in mixed clan structures, and were among the "white" settlers that pushed into the south after the war of 1812 (and the defeat of the Creeks in the Creek War), and varyingly assimilated into whiteness, married in with the scattered family groups that had avoided removal (see: MoWa Choctaw, Poarch Creek, etc), or became primarily "black" in the southern caste system in the same way we became primarily "white."
Just old blood Americans, basically. :^)
