What's so galling is that there are so many white people walking around talking about their Native American ancestry, who know nothing at all about any of the tribes or cultures they claim to be part of, and without acknowledging exactly how they would have come by Indigenous ancestry in the first place (because consent would not have been part of the equation).

The only reason they can get away with telling these lies about their ancestry anyway, is because they think Indigenous peoples are extinct, and so can't counter them.

For the record my great grandmother, on my mother's side, was born around 1900 (no exact date), from the Nez Perce tribe, and moved to Mississippi with her husband just before my grandmother was born. My uncle has a giant photo of her. She definitely looks Native. She does not look African at all. She isn't wearing her Native regalia in the photo though. She is wearing Western dress. (This was all the information I could get out of my grandmother.)