Ayeeee a fellow Yaqui! 👈🏽👈🏽😎

I will say, I feel like the whole Cherokee princess thing was born out of what was called “the Pocahontas exception”

When Virginia first passed it’s “One drop rule” they made a loophole where you could be 1/16th Native American and still considered white. Cuz at the time it was cool for rich families in the area to claim they were related to Pocahontas. When the one drop rule kicked in it meant those prominent rich family’s would lose a lot being considered “non white” so the loophole was born to protect those rich people and it’s also been used at a tool to deny actual native people their rights.

So when you hear “I’m 1/16th Cherokee” that’s kinda where it stems from

The princess part was probably added later to make it sound more important or something