Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people of self-identified Cherokee ancestry
The whole point of this list is that these are people who are *not* members of Cherokee tribes; so it has no overlap with the Cherokee, Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, or United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians. Yet they claim Cherokee descent, which is widely written about in books and newspapers. The phenomenon of non-tribal members claiming Cherokee descent (specifically Cherokee among all tribes in the United States) is ubiquitous and widely written about as well (the external links are just a sampling of the larger conversation). The majority of the entries are, in fact, sourced, and one could simply request citations for the remaining entries, instead demanding deletion of a highly active article with innumerable links feeding into it. The subject is specifically framed to acknowledge the grey area—that these are notable individuals who have publicly '''claimed''' Cherokee descent (that they made these claims is completely verifible). I notice that this deletion notice wasn't announced on ikiproject Indigenous peoples of North America and editors who actually contribute to the article, such as myself have not been properly alerted
— User:Yuchitown, 17:56, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
Stance: keep
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