Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people of self-identified Cherokee ancestry
It's |reliably sourced and it's a |notable topic. There's a WP article on the topic – Native American identity in the United States with a section that discusses Native_American_identity_in_the_United_States#Self-identification|self-identification. In fact, Cherokee should probably be dropped from the title and expand it to ''self-identified Native American ancestry'' instead. There are a lot of notable people who don't meet the criteria to be ''legally'' defined as having Cherokee ancestry, but choose to self-identify instead. There is academic research on the topic of https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4207217/ the right to racial self-definition, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1185964?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents perspectives on racial and ethnic identity labels, and independent sources that discuss the topic in detail, https://diverseeducation.com/article/79507/ Native American Self-Identification. Some universities allow their faculty and staff to http://www.umt.edu/aig/people/default.php self-identify, with a detailed definition for self-identification. It makes perfect sense to have a list of notable people who fit that category of self-identification. I don't see how this list is any different from the other dozens and dozens of these sort of lists in – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_people_by_ethnicity Category:Lists of people by ethnicity – that require self-identification for inclusion
— User:Isaidnoway, 23:02, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)