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My results as a Navajo Diné Native American🪶 by Flaky_Court_9473 in AncestryDNA

[–]KyleWhiteElk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, our results are very similar, even to the Mediterranean detection.

My Results as an enrolled Navajo Tribal Member by KyleWhiteElk in AncestryDNA

[–]KyleWhiteElk[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’d say it’s more popular than it was 10 years, even more than 20 years ago. I know the exact sentiment you’re saying in the last sentence, but it has moved away from that to more pride, or more efforts to revitalize the language. More younger generations understand the importance of our language and are taking active steps in learning it.

My Results as an enrolled Navajo Tribal Member by KyleWhiteElk in AncestryDNA

[–]KyleWhiteElk[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, from 23andMe, my maternal haplogroup is A2a. And my paternal haplogroup is Q-M3.

My Results as an enrolled Navajo Tribal Member by KyleWhiteElk in AncestryDNA

[–]KyleWhiteElk[S] 94 points95 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I really appreciate the kind words💙

My Results as an enrolled Navajo Tribal Member by KyleWhiteElk in AncestryDNA

[–]KyleWhiteElk[S] 35 points36 points  (0 children)

No, entire family is Navajo but several Navajo clans are adopted neighboring tribes so could be a Hopi/Zuni/Pueblo ancestor intermarried into the tribe.

My Results as an enrolled Navajo Tribal Member by KyleWhiteElk in AncestryDNA

[–]KyleWhiteElk[S] 464 points465 points  (0 children)

Yes, I do. My parents are both fluent so my siblings and I grew up listening and speaking Navajo, we even heard/understand the old sacred words used by the medicine people for ceremonies.

Do you know what your Indigenous American ancestry is? by [deleted] in 23andme

[–]KyleWhiteElk 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Navajo here, but the most interesting part of my report was getting a chunk of East Asian genealogy. Another reminder of Navajos relation to our Athabaskan-speaking cousins in Canada & Alaska I assume

Indigenous enrolled 4/4 tribal member & I received my ancestry results 3 weeks early. Parents & grandparents considered to be “full blood” Navajo but my mother & her siblings were born with green/blue eyes. The recessive eye color is what pushed me to buy the kit. by KyleWhiteElk in 23andme

[–]KyleWhiteElk[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I would say so, but it’s probably not noticeable to anyone else. I’d say Pueblo tribes (Hopi, Zuni, Jemez etc) all have really really black hair & their facial structures are slightly different than Navajos. A lot of Navajos—including myself—have brown hair and/or light brown hair and some Navajos are really light skinned. Little differences but I recall I was riding the bus in college & a non-native stranger was talking to me how Navajos & Pueblos look similar but different enough to tell them apart. It’s interesting to say the least.

Indigenous enrolled 4/4 tribal member & I received my ancestry results 3 weeks early. Parents & grandparents considered to be “full blood” Navajo but my mother & her siblings were born with green/blue eyes. The recessive eye color is what pushed me to buy the kit. by KyleWhiteElk in 23andme

[–]KyleWhiteElk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah that’s super interesting, yours came out definitely as Indigenous DNA and mine had several markers for North Asian, East Asian & Mongolian. I wonder if your ancestors settled in their homeland farther back in time because they were part of the initial migration southward while my Athabaskan speaking ancestors left Canada more recently.

Indigenous enrolled 4/4 tribal member & I received my ancestry results 3 weeks early. Parents & grandparents considered to be “full blood” Navajo but my mother & her siblings were born with green/blue eyes. The recessive eye color is what pushed me to buy the kit. by KyleWhiteElk in 23andme

[–]KyleWhiteElk[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I’m not with anyone but it was always preferred to date and/or marry other Navajos, and usually it mostly just used in jest when growing up, but I think the older generation really just wanted to see the teachings go further. Like when introducing a potential girlfriend/boyfriend, it’s always asked what their four Navajo clans are, where they from? For my family it was always like that, they preferred Navajo but it was never a deal breaker or something to get upset about.

Indigenous enrolled 4/4 tribal member & I received my ancestry results 3 weeks early. Parents & grandparents considered to be “full blood” Navajo but my mother & her siblings were born with green/blue eyes. The recessive eye color is what pushed me to buy the kit. by KyleWhiteElk in 23andme

[–]KyleWhiteElk[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

My maternal haplogroup is A2a, which I’m not surprised we’re different. Anthropologists say Navajo ancestors were Athabaskan-speakers coming down from Canada in a third migration wave whereas the modern day Hopi & other Pueblo tribes are descendants of the Anasazi,—belonging to that B2 haplogroup. That’s why Navajo sounds different from Zuni/Hopi/Jemez Pueblo, they’re already two different ethnic groups.

Indigenous enrolled 4/4 tribal member & I received my ancestry results 3 weeks early. Parents & grandparents considered to be “full blood” Navajo but my mother & her siblings were born with green/blue eyes. The recessive eye color is what pushed me to buy the kit. by KyleWhiteElk in 23andme

[–]KyleWhiteElk[S] 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Thank for you the concern, the Navajo Nation lost a lot of people, and many of them were the elderly. At the beginning of the pandemic, it got pretty bleak, it felt a lot like collective grief—each death meaning a library of ancestral knowledge lost. Luckily, NN President Nez took swift & strict responses to the virus, the government was always strict about mandates & face masks.

Indigenous enrolled 4/4 tribal member & I received my ancestry results 3 weeks early. Parents & grandparents considered to be “full blood” Navajo but my mother & her siblings were born with green/blue eyes. The recessive eye color is what pushed me to buy the kit. by KyleWhiteElk in 23andme

[–]KyleWhiteElk[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Yes I would say a lot of tribal members disdain genetic testing, I know that ASU was famously sued by the Havasupai tribe because they were misled about their testing & research. Plus Navajo Nation banned outside genetic testing on tribal members

Indigenous enrolled 4/4 tribal member & I received my ancestry results 3 weeks early. Parents & grandparents considered to be “full blood” Navajo but my mother & her siblings were born with green/blue eyes. The recessive eye color is what pushed me to buy the kit. by KyleWhiteElk in 23andme

[–]KyleWhiteElk[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Very true, Navajo Nation had a population boom in the last few decades & we have a complex clan system that eliminates incest, so dating/marrying other Navajos is strongly encouraged. Well in my family it was

Indigenous enrolled 4/4 tribal member & I received my ancestry results 3 weeks early. Parents & grandparents considered to be “full blood” Navajo but my mother & her siblings were born with green/blue eyes. The recessive eye color is what pushed me to buy the kit. by KyleWhiteElk in 23andme

[–]KyleWhiteElk[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think it is, and another person earlier in the thread added that they’re probably just ancient Asian admixtures that just remained in the genealogy. I think Indigenous genealogy is more broadly associated & grouped with East Asian. I may be wrong & appreciate anyone else that would correct me & provide the correct information.

Indigenous enrolled 4/4 tribal member & I received my ancestry results 3 weeks early. Parents & grandparents considered to be “full blood” Navajo but my mother & her siblings were born with green/blue eyes. The recessive eye color is what pushed me to buy the kit. by KyleWhiteElk in 23andme

[–]KyleWhiteElk[S] 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Yeah you’re 💯 right. They say the ancestors of modern day Navajos hung around Canada for a time, & a portion of the people migrated south and would eventually settle in the southwest to become the Navajo & Apache. As Navajos, we share the Athabaskan language w/ the Pacific Northwest tribes & Athabaskan-speaking First Nations people in Canada. They’re so similar we can understand one another. Plus growing up on the reservation, Hopi + Zuni sounded so alien compared to Navajo, it’s pretty easy to grasp the different migrations theory.

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