I was gonna make an 'I'm 1/64th Cherokee' joke until I saw the commentary

Fuckin' BB beating me to everything.

>Cherokee princess

Dunno the numbers but wouldn't particularly surprise me if in native american tribal communities everyone is distant cousins with each other.

Do any of the American Indigenous tribes even have princesses?

UserAccount said:

Do any of the American Indigenous tribes even have princesses?

From Wikipedia

The Indian princess is usually a stereotypical and inaccurate representation of a Native American or other Indigenous woman of the Americas. The term "princess" was often mistakenly applied to the daughters of tribal chiefs or other community leaders by early American colonists who mistakenly believed that Indigenous people shared the European system of royalty.

From what I've heard, the term 'descended from a [Native American People] Princess' was also a way to explain away darker skin tones among supposed-to-be-100%-Caucasian white people, usually in an attempt to cover up the descendants of slaves and slaveowners.

Americans bragging about their 6.022*10^-23 % Welsh ancestry.

UserAccount said:

Do any of the American Indigenous tribes even have princesses?

The Mesoamerican empires did, as they likewise linked their ruling families by marriage, but outside of those empires there just wasn’t a lot of documentation since most of the history wasn’t written down (the English barely wrote things down as compared to the Spanish) and anything from back when Cahokia was a major city was kept as oral history and thus lost when European disease killed 90% of their populations.

Coga said:

From what I've heard, the term 'descended from a [Native American People] Princess' was also a way to explain away darker skin tones among supposed-to-be-100%-Caucasian white people, usually in an attempt to cover up the descendants of slaves and slaveowners.

I once had a friend from the southern USA get memed into thinking they had a Cherokee ancestor because of this phenomenon... actually turned out to be a real thing for them but rather a Muscogee chieftain's daughter.