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It's funny, I grew up hearing that and thinking I was some odd percentage native American only to find out that I had no native blood in me when doing a DNA test. I did find some African and Asian ancestry though so that was cool, never even knew/heard about that.
I was told the same story. Took a DNA test. I am whiter than white bread. 99.8% Western European. My family wanted to argue with me about it.
Well, you’ll be interested to know that those tests will often show African and Asian dna when it is in fact Native American dna, but because of the genocide we don’t have enough examples to properly test.
So you may very well have native ancestry.
I just assumed it was the white families trying to pull shit like "oh I'm not racist, I have a black fiend" but with ancestry. Which could still be the case I suppose.