Wife's Granny was half blood Cherokee, born and raised on the reservation.
Makes the wife 1/8 Cherokee.
Her sister, always one to do whatever she hears the yuppies are doing, and trying to be one of the cool kids, sent in a DNA sample.
Her results came back @ about 3% NA.
But it is common knowledge that the NA DNA of the Cherokee Nation had been diluted over a couple of centuries before they hit the Trail of Tears.
Those blue eyes did not come across the Bering Strait.