Her Grandmother Said Cherokee. Her DNA Said 0% Native.

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Her grandmother said Cherokee. Her DNA said zero percent Native American, not a trace, not a decimal point, zero. This is the story of Denise Caldwell, and the "Cherokee grandmother myth" that repeats across thousands of American families in almost the exact same words. In this video: why so many Southern families claimed Cherokee ancestry specifically (and why it was almost never Creek, Choctaw, or any other nation), how Alabama's racial classification laws in the early 1900s made that story a matter of survival, the real reason the Cherokee Nation pushes back on ancestry DNA claims like Elizabeth Warren's, the untold history of the Dawes Rolls and Cherokee Freedmen, and why commercial ancestry DNA tests are genuinely bad at detecting Native American ancestry even when a family story is completely true. If you've ever taken an AncestryDNA or genealogy test and gotten a result that didn't match the family story you grew up with, this one is for you. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 – A Family "Fac

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