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In reply to the discussion: Help with some math please. Indian Heritage [View all]SheilaT
(23,156 posts)31. How in the world does the white father
change the percentages? Does he somehow contribute 15/16 of her DNA?
If the tribe is so math challenged as to think someone with one grandparent who is a full-blooded Apache is less than one quarter Apache, they really need to review basic fractions.
Now if they choose to not enroll someone who is only one quarter Apache, that's their choice. But it does NOT change the math.
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it will show the percentage of native american but not the tribe, native american covers south
Demonaut
Jun 2016
#32
try the ancestry dna test, it will give you a map of the densities of your dna profile
Demonaut
Jun 2016
#34