Are Native Americans White?

Question

Most look white and I'm part native but look white.

Answer 1

Native Americans are Native Americans. They are not Caucasian.

Answer 2

Many Americans of aboriginal ancestry (to use the PC phrase) are intermarried with people of European ancestry, so they may look paler than one might expect. They are of northeast Asian origin, as far as anyone knows, migrating from Mongolia through Siberia. Therefore, they are originally Asian, but the separation of this group from the mainstrean when they migrated to the Americas caused a branching-off of the genes and a subsequent re-branching into the hundreds of tribal groups throughout the Americas. My goodness, I am wordy! Anyhoooo, Native Americans often have features that look "white", especially strong noses.

I was interested to read some of the comments by other YA people. I have never, although I've lived close to Native people for years, seen anyone who looks more African-American than European. However, this may be true in the midwest or southern states. Did you know that when the Civil War ended, the several large tribes had to free their many thousands of African-American slaves and provide them with the wherewithall to start a new life? There was a big legal issue where many former slaves who had been part of tribal life for generations were petitioning the U.S. government because they would not be admitted as members of the tribe. It's interesting with Native Americans that there's a thing called the Blood Quantum, a percentage of Native American ancestry a person must have to qualify as a Native. If you are more than half white, you are white. It's quite a reversal of the "one drop" standard that some people used to hold to.

Answer 3

Native Americans are red; their skin color ranges from white through bronze and red to black, but they are the red race.
I have never seen any that look white; only in pictures. Maybe it depends upon where you live; those around the Great Lakes seem to be the palest in skin color; or the North East; or the Pacific North West.
All of those I have seen in Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and points west are fairly dark, the men being darker than the women usually.
I am part "native" also; I am considered to be "dark complexioned".
Through DNA Native Americans show traces of white, as well as the more predominant yellow races.

Answer 4

no, geneticists recently figured out that they descended from Siberia. A lot of native americans look white because they most likely have white blood in there genes. think about how many women were raped or married to white men and had families. now if you want to go back like 1000 years and look at native americans then before the white man showed up, you'd see a lot of darker people. but there are also regional differences to them depending on where they live and who their ancestors were. like if you look at inuits and choctaw, they don't really look alike. you probably look white because you're part white.

Answer 5

Those who look white probably are for the most part and just claim to be Native with a smaller faction of it really. Or someone might just be mixed and resemble the white side of the family.

Answer 6

A very interesting question! I'm part Choctaw on both sides of my family, but since I'm not enrolled on any tribal register, I am not really Native American, and have no casino rights.

In PC terms, the question itself is offensive, because in that ethnic narrative White is the unter-mensch, the category into which tired old descendants of racist, sexist, imperialistic Europeans are exiled.

The US Census continuously expands its catalog of ethnic groupings, largely to accommodate self-designated champions of disadvantaged minorities. It pays to be disadvantaged, and pays even better to be the face of a disadvantaged group.

We don't yet have to designate our racial origins or preferences for public purposes. It is still illegal to discriminate on the basis of race or national origin. Yet legal requirements force the compilation of that data. If we don't supply those labels ourselves, some official will use the eye ball test: if you look white, you are white.

Hence silence is proves the answer to your question: You are White.

Answer 7

Many "thin bloods" do appear white (or black depending on their mixture). Those of us with higher blood quantums tend to have darker features (dark hair, eye color, etc.). It also depends on the tribe the person is from. My Chippewa/Cree grandmother has gray eyes. Other Cree people I know have light features. However, my Shoshone and Paiute grandparents had darker features.

Answer 8

Boy, this is the hot topic of the day, it seems.
I wrote a longer answer on your other question, and my answer stays the same.
In anthropology or elsewhere, you might get a different perspective. In genealogy, instead of trying to find the one correct "label"... using any label at all is counterproductive.
Genealogy is factual identification of specific ancestors. Definition of ethnic is not factual but opinion.

Answer 9

Most of the American Indians I've seen look more Afro-American then white.

Answer 10

full blood ones are tan looking or a brown.a indian