What haplogroup do the Cherokee belong to?

Question

What haplogroup do the Cherokee belong to?

Answer 1

As far as MtDNA (passed down by females) is concerned.

The A Haplogroup occurs most frequently in the Arctic/Subarctic areas of North America; it is almost nonexistent among the non-Athapaskan-speaking peoples in the Southwestern areas.

The B Haplogroup occurs most frequently in the Southwestern part of North America.

The C Haplogroup occurs most frequently in Eastern parts of North America.

The D Haplogroup occurs most frequently among peoples from the Western parts North America.

And, the X Haplogroup occurs most frequently among Algonquian speaking peoples in the North Central and Great Lakes Regions.

Now to the Y Chromosome (passed down from male to male).

The Cherokee are mostly Q & C... but have a high degree of R (recent European DNA).

One can be 1/2 Cherokee & have no Native American markers. Say you are a male with a Cherokee mother & European father, you marry a woman with with a Cherokee father & European mother. Then your children (although 1/2 Cherokee) would have only European DNA markers. The males carry your European Y haplogroup & the females carry your wife's European X haplogroup... thus they'd test as 100% European haplogroups.  Both you & your wife, however would test as 1/2 Cherokee. This is the main flaw with the Out of Africa "Eve" hypothesis, which the out of Africa group of anthropologists simply cannot understand.

Pure Cherokee have basically C or X MtDNA & Q male (Y chromsome)... they & the Iroquoi are very closely related.  However, they appear to have a large amount of the R (Y Chromosome).