White people or black people or anyone who doesn’t know jack about being Cherokee should cede the floor to the Cherokee or other native groups. They are pretty clear on this.
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But DNA doesn’t matter.
All she has to do to make it a nonissue is go apologize in person and properly to the Cherokee.
Her obligations are not to this jackass, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t have them.