White Business Owners Claimed Cherokee Ancestry—and Got $300 Million in Government Money
by Anne Branigin from on (#4J2NP)
If you've spent any time in the South or Midwest, you've probably heard a few people claim to have Native American ancestry ("Do you see these eyebrows? This bone structure?") And, chances are, if they had to name the tribe, they'd tell you their great-great-great grandmother was half-Cherokee.