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I'm struggling to process that this is so common... Also had this in my family growing up
I'm up in northern Ontario in Canada and I had a French Canadian neighbor who loved watching John Wayne movies. He often told me that he had Cherokee ancestry too.
I told him a hundred times that this wasn't Cherokee territory because I was full blooded Ojibwe Cree from this area and we had never heard of Cherokee. I kept telling him that he was probably part Ojibwe or Algonquin which is who the French mixed with in our area .... but he really wanted to be a John Wayne movie Indian.
That's hilarious!
Mixed race / olive skinned people trying to find something more acceptable in order to avoid being outcast. Also, edgelords.