think the Cherokee Indian Princess bit is over-used by people who are probably just wanting to have something to *identify* with since all our ancestory is so diluted to begin with. America IS a melting pot! Very few of us who were raised as Caucasian are of just one original descent. Unless your Jewish, Amish/Menonnonite by birth, African, or Italian...(you get the picture), it's hard to identify. It's natural to WANT to identify. Interesting thoughts, and I'm grateful to see another Melungeon adding to the colorful mix! I don't "claim it" because they're so distant, and their genes now so thin in me, but I have both recent African and Ojibowe ancesters about 8 and 5 generations back respectively. The African via a sailor who jumped ship on one of the Scottish isles just before the American revolution, and the Amer-Indian from a 1/4 Ojibowe bride in the same line. Like I said, I don't walk around "claiming" it, but I do claim to be a brother to all men and women with, I hope, some justification. I guess the question is; How much is enough to claim or even talk about?? I am probably less than a quarter mixed black/melungeon (it's debatable because we aren't sure who passed themselves off and who was really white) Let me say this, and not to be unkind; A few years ago, there was a movement from African-Americans to get their *forty acres and a mule*... as most freed slaves never did. Do