Cherokee DNA Test

Cherokee DNA Test

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With the release of our forensic database you can now find out if you have a high match to either admixed or official enrolled Cherokees. The two reference populations called U.S. Cherokee Admixed (n = 62) and U.S. Cherokee Admixed (n=92) were our first populations, created in house from a combination of participants in our Cherokee DNA Studies who traced their mother’s mitochondrial lineage to a Cherokee woman and a random sample of customers who indicated to us that they identified as Cherokee. In a big advance, we added the first available tribal data with a population called U.S. Cherokee Enrolled (n=33) in July 2018. Most recently, in 2024 we added Texas Cherokee (n=54).

Your personal DNA profile is compared with our data for more than 90 American Indian populations from numerous countries in North, Central and South America as well as Asia. In addition to Cherokee, possible matches include Apache, Navajo, Salishan, Inuit, Lumbee, Chukchi, Huichols and Canadian aboriginal tribes, representing a total of nearly 5,000 subjects who identified as Native American, American Indian, indigenous or aboriginal in forensic studies.

If you receive a positive match to one or more of the Cherokee populations your report will include a  Cherokee Match Certificate. If you do not receive a high Cherokee match your report will include a Native American Certificate listing your other Native American matches, depending on your results.

You may also order a Cherokee or Native American Certificate. Check out our deluxe styles, including Cherokee Firebloom, exclusive to DNA Consultants!

Once you order, we send you a sample collection kit the next day. Free shipping to U.S. address by FedEx (usually 2 days), or pay for another method of your choice. Return your samples in the free Business Reply Envelope included in your kit or buy a prepaid FedEx Express Return Envelope to the lab.

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This is a stand-alone product including a DNA test and can be ordered by itself. Once you receive your test results you may upgrade to the full product with the Premium Upgrade. To order the full product to start with, including other American Indian matches and markers, world and megapopulation results, an ancestry map and certificate, and your top countries of Europe, purchase a DNA Fingerprint Plus or Native American DNA Fingerprint Plus.

This is a non-chain-of-custody test and cannot be used for legal or administrative purposes.

If you have already ordered any other DNA report from DNA Consultants, you may update your results with the $89 Special Cherokee Match. This upgrade is for existing customers only.

IMPORTANT: No Artificial Intelligence is used in any of our reports. All our services are personalized, and your personal data is not available to any AI engines. No AI is used in any books we offer for sale in our bookstore. 

Consider ordering Genealogy Services to document your American Indian ancestry!

Check out the publications of Donald N. Yates, author of books about the Cherokee. Any of them can be ordered here or through Amazon or other bookseller.


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Disclaimer: You cannot use our DNA tests to join a federally recognized tribe.

This is a forensic DNA test based in part on publicly available tribal American Indian data published in K. Carrothers et al, “Native American Population Data Based on the Globalfiler® Autosomal STR loci,” Forensic Science International: Genetics 24:e12-e13. This is a non-chain-of custody test and cannot be used for legal or administrative purposes. It does not yield percentages of ethnicity. Note that no DNA results are accepted by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to claim membership. Your Native American ancestors may be very far removed generationally or their genes are too weak to register statistically. Your results may or may not confirm expected ethnic composition, family history or genealogical determinations. Alone, no DNA ancestry test may be used to prove identity, biological relationships, nationality, citizenship, immigration or tribal enrollment. IMPORTANT: We don’t use Generative AI in ancestry research or genealogy studies. Your data remains private and is never shared with AI systems.

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Disclaimer: This ancestry test is primarily for private knowledge. It is a forensic DNA test based in part on tribal American Indian data published in K. Carrothers et al, “Native American Population Data Based on the Globalfiler® Autosomal STR loci,” Forensic Science International: Genetics 24:e12-e13. While it is a chain-of custody test, it does not provide evidence accepted by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to claim membership. Your Native American ancestors may be very far removed generationally or their genes may be too weak to register statistically. Your results may or may not confirm expected ethnic composition, family history or tribal connections. Alone, no DNA ancestry test may be used to prove identity, biological relationships, nationality, citizenship, immigration or tribal enrollment. 

 

Links

Enrolled Cherokee Genetics (blog post, July 24, 2018)

Cherokee Unlike Other Indians (blog post, May 28, 2018)

All Populations

Cherokee Descendants Who Proved the Geneticists Wrong: Surprising Lineages of the Cherokees, episode 12, part 1, The Time Traveler’s Suitcase (podcast, April 25, 2023)

Genealogist Donald Yates Uncovers Secrets of Cherokee DNA (interview, October 13, 2022)

Cherokee DNA Studies II: More Real People Who Proved the Geneticists Wrong (book)


All Native American Populations at DNA Consultants
Abenaki
Algonquian
Amazonian Indians
Amuzgos
Andean Indians
Apache
Athabaskan
Atocpan Indians
Belem Amazonians
Brazilian Indians
Cherokee Indians
Chihuahua Indians
Chinantecs
Chippewa Indians
Choco
Choctaw Indians
Chontoles
Chukchi
Cochimi Indians
Cora Indians
Colombian
Creek Indians
Cucupa/Cocobah Indians
Cuetzalan Indians
Cuicatecs
Diegueno Indians
Dogrib Indians
Eastern Canadian Metis
Eskimo
Euchee
Evenk
Guatemalan Mestizo
Guerrero Mestizo
Hualapai and Yavapai
Huaves
Huichol Indians
Huichols – Durango
Huichols – Jalisco
Huichols – Nayarit
Inupiat
Kichwa Indians
Kiliwa Indians
Kumeyaa Indians
Lumbee Indians
Maya
Mayo – Sonora
Mazatecs
Mexicaneros – Durango
Miwok Indians
Mixtec/Mixe
Mojave Indians
Muskogean Indians
Native American – Michigan
Native American – Minnesota
Native American – No. Ontario
Native American – Saskatchewan
Native American – Florida
Navajo
Ojibwe Indians
Orinoquian Indians
Otomi Indians
PaiPai Indians
Paraguayan Indians
Popoloca
Raramuri Indians
Salishan Indians
Seminole Indians
Seri Indians
Shawnee – Admixed
Shawnee – Enrolled
Sioux Indians
Tarahumara Indians
Tepehuanos – Durango
Trique
Yuman Indians
Yupik
Zapotec
Zoque


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I took the cherokee DNA test and found out that there wasn't a match for cherokee. My top 3 matches: (1) Saskatchewan, (2) Northern Ontario, (3) Northern Ontario First Nations Canada. I found out that my Mother's side has ojibway heritage. Thanks to DNA consultant who helped confirm this research.


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The Cherokee DNA test is an unusual, well-presented product. It delivers what it promises in accuracy, speed of execution, and convenience. The Cherokee Match certificate is bound to please a certain segment of purchasers. It’s a great gift for someone who has everything, and important for anyone digging seriously into their genealogy. It was clever of DNA Consultants to isolate Cherokee and other Native American markers and design a test that can select out this special ethnicity. I have heard that Native American DNA tends to “wash out” and not register in general population DNA tests so the test plays its part in preserving knowledge of Cherokee lineage. One addition that would enhance the product might be to take the top five statistically significant Native American groups that flank the Cherokee DNA and highlight them.


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The kit arrived fast, was as described. The product provided was detailed with easy steps to follow and the return package had postage paid. The lab results provided were simple and easy to understand, also contact telephone numbers and e mail address are provided in case you have any questions. I was told by my Grandmother that she was Cherokee, and my father was Irish and Italian. The results arrived and I was pleasantly surprised to find that in my top genetic makeup was Cherokee as well as Salishan (totem pole builders ) from British Columbia. Also the European and eastern makeup makes sense. If you want to know who you are, and where you come from, DNA Consultants are the way to go!


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