Am i considered a certain nationality even if it is from a relative that lived 400 years ago?

Question

my gggggggggggg grandmother was native american, does this mean i am considered native american?

Answer 1

Nationality is not the right word. Your nationality is whatever country YOU are a citizen of. Are you considered Native American? Depends on who is considering and for what purpose. In reality, all the information you gave means is that your gggggggggg grandmother was native american.

There are some organizations that sometimes want their members to have at least some historical connection to some group and it is up to those groups to determine what they want (and more difficult, how to prove the information is accurate). In some governments, there may be a need to document a blood association with a certain group if there is an issue of land rights, retribution payments, etc. But rarely do these legal situations go back more than a few generations because beyond that, EVERYTHING is suspect and difficult if not impossible to legally prove.

So no, your nationality is most certainly not Native American. But if your information is correct, you do have ancestors who were Native Americans - and arguably Asian as it is "believed" that most North American Native Americans originated in Asia. Then again, if you are of a Judeo-Christian religion then one could argue that you are actually mid-eastern or wherever the Garden of Eden is currently believed to have existed.

Answer 2

400 years ago? That would be 1607...Jamestown? At any rate, the public people usually consider a generation to be 20 years (unrealistic, but a number). Some would figure 25 years...but they keep forgetting that most women keep having babies until they die or can no longer have babies, so many babies were born to women in their 40s. So, OK: 20 years would be 20 generations, 40 years would be 10 generations.
Even going with 10 generations, 2 to the 10th power is, oh, about 512. That is how many ancestors it would take, 10 generations ago, to produce you. By accumulation, it would be a total of 1023 ancestors...On ONE SIDE of the family (mom or dad) So, counting both parents, double these numbers. In other words, if there is only ONE NATIVE AMERICAN, 1 out of 2046 is not very much. Of course, probably some of the others also had a part of a native in their ancestry...
Try a DNA study. I went through www.familytreedna.com. I am part Innuit, part Eskimo, and part who-knows-what tribes. At least that way you will know for certain.
As to nationality, it is basically what nation you grew up in, or immigrated to (my wife is a Filipina, but a naturalized American).
Good luck!

Answer 3

No. If you were born and live in the United States of America your nationality is simply American. There is no nationality called Native American.

Answer 4

Well considering the number of generations that have passed since then, I would say no...the degree of Native blood would be so small, it's not worth mentioning. Whats the rest of your ancestry? You can say you are of mixed ancestry like most of us are.

Nationality is not the same as ancestry. If you were born in the United States then your nationality is American. If you were born in another country and still are a citizen of that country then that is your nationality.

Answer 5

It seems as though Native Americans are the only ones that must "prove" their degree of blood. 3 of 4 of my Grandparents were Native American (Creek and Choctaw). But they didn't live on a reservation or enroll in the "Tribe". Therefore I'm African American because my mother is mostly African American.

Answer 6

No but you do have native American heritage in you so just be proud of that. I am UK based and would just love a bit something exotic like that, my line is English, Welsh and Cornish,

Answer 7

For getting grants and things there is a percentage they look for. Usually 25%

I suppose you could call youself whatever you like. I am 50% Itallian, 25% Irish, and 25% Danish. The dominant culture of my family was Italian. So I consider myself Italian.

Joe

Answer 8

Not if the rest of you is Norwegian, Chinese, *****, Scot, Polynesian or a blend of 57 nationalities, like most Americans.

Answer 9

yes If your father is related then so are you