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minus-square@mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish6•1 month ago“Aww shit that means my great great great grandpappy raped some native girl. Better tell every native person I know about it!”
minus-squareThe OctonautlinkfedilinkEnglish6•1 month agoRaped some native girl and then… took custody of the child?
minus-square@Lifter@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoNo, the other ancestors are all native American. Obviously the child stayed in the native to community.
minus-square@ebolapie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-21 month agoIf the child stayed in the native community wouldn’t that imply that they would likely grow up to have a child with someone else in that community? And that their descendants would be more than half a percent native genetically?
minus-square@Lifter@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoUhh yes, sorry. I had it the other way around. Perhaps a native american then raped/had child with a caucasian, who kept the child?
minus-square@ebolapie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoThat’s certainly a possibility, but it doesn’t seem like the most likely explanation to me.
“Aww shit that means my great great great grandpappy raped some native girl. Better tell every native person I know about it!”
Raped some native girl and then… took custody of the child?
No, the other ancestors are all native American. Obviously the child stayed in the native to community.
If the child stayed in the native community wouldn’t that imply that they would likely grow up to have a child with someone else in that community? And that their descendants would be more than half a percent native genetically?
Uhh yes, sorry. I had it the other way around. Perhaps a native american then raped/had child with a caucasian, who kept the child?
That’s certainly a possibility, but it doesn’t seem like the most likely explanation to me.