given the other elements of these people's common claims, the best I can figure is that somewhere between 1900-1925, a Cherokee (...it's usually Cherokee, amiright) person born in the U.S. and a first-generation Irish-American had A HELL OF A LOT OF KIDS. I don't know why I get so emotional about this topic. It's probably because I'm a "white" person who's enrolled in the Cherokee Nation. My Tsalagi ancestors did a lot of intermarrying, practically from the time the first Scottish traders arrived. Some of the darker skinned ones would start marrying white people, and then their light skinned children would marry a darker skinned Cherokee. Back and forth. Darker, lighter, darker, lighter. That's been going on for generations. Does that mean they got less and more and then less Cherokee? LOL. I was talking to a Latino lady yesterday. She totally looks Latino through and through, but her last child came out with blond hair and blue eyes. People always assume that she's just a babysitter and can't fathom that her daughter isn't fully white. I don't even want to think about the nasty accusations people are going to fling at that little blond girl when she grows up and wants to learn more about her Latino heritage. It was the same with my grandmother. For whatever reason, she came out looking white. She was forced to move out of Oklahoma during the Great Depression to find work. There were no Cherokee speakers where she ended up, and she