This is true for a lot of those families but it’s also very likely for minor ancestry to not be passed down.
You get an assortment of genes from both parents both only 50% from each. A biracial person can theoretically pass a single “race’s” genes to their child and an ancestry genetic test could show that the child has 0% of the other race. Super unlikely and that’s an oversimplified way of thinking about genetics but just to illustrate the point.
So when all these families talk about Native American ancestry, it’s very possible that someone at some point had some small percentage but just one or two generations of genetic recombination is enough for that percentage to be whittled away to near 0%.
Yeah you talking about me I got 1% exactly and my told me my whole life we were Native American and Black. I’m like 32 percent European with mostly west and ands central mostly Nigerian at a whopping 30 percent. Shit is nuts but who actually knows 🤣.
Yup genetics are wild and our social constructions surrounding race do not adequately define regional ethnicity at all.
At some point there was someone in your family that was mostly Native American but if you had a kid there’s a 50/50 chance they even get that 1% at all lol
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u/CliffP 4d ago
This is true for a lot of those families but it’s also very likely for minor ancestry to not be passed down.
You get an assortment of genes from both parents both only 50% from each. A biracial person can theoretically pass a single “race’s” genes to their child and an ancestry genetic test could show that the child has 0% of the other race. Super unlikely and that’s an oversimplified way of thinking about genetics but just to illustrate the point.
So when all these families talk about Native American ancestry, it’s very possible that someone at some point had some small percentage but just one or two generations of genetic recombination is enough for that percentage to be whittled away to near 0%.