I bet I know why Warren claimed Native American heritage.

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56. The history of the US demonstrates that it was. For example, ~700-1000 were killed/sold to the

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W. Indies during the Pequot War (1638) in the Mass. Bay. Did the colonists also intermarry with 700-1000 Indians during this period? I don't find that in accounts of the Ma. Bay colony.

Son of the chief the Pilgrims celebrated the first thanksgiving with was beheaded, drawn & quartered, & his head stuck on a pole for 20 years. That was the sexy love the pilgrims had for indians.

The biggest number of US wars were indian wars.

More than half of NA died from imported diseases before there was significant colonization in the US. When the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the tribes there had already been decimated.

There were about 600K indians in the us in 1800 and about 250K in 1890 (not counting AK). Today NA (which includes some very, very white NA) are under 2% of the population.

Link me to this mitochondrial evidence.

I find, for example:

We have previously shown evidence of strong sex-biased genetic blending in the founding and ongoing history of the Brazilian population, with the African and Amerindian contribution being highest from maternal lineages (as measured by mitochondrial DNA) and the European contribution foremost from paternal lineages... We thus wondered if the same could be observed in American Caucasians. To answer that question, we retrieved 1387 hypervariable I Caucasian mitochondrial DNA sequences from the FBI population database and established their haplogroups and continental geographical sources.

In sharp contrast with the situation of the Caucasian population of Latin American countries, only 3.1% of the American Caucasian sequences had African and/or Amerindian origin.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17573655

That's 3.1% combined, not 3.1% each.