A list of famous Cherokee descendants...

[ndrthl]

There were several famous Cherokees in American history, including Sequoyah, who invented the Cherokee writing system. Sequoyah may be the only known person in history to invent a widely used writing system singlehandedly. Sequoyah never learned to speak, read or write the English language.
Famous Cherokee politicians include Chad "Corntassel" Smith, Wilma Mankiller and Ross Swimmer. The American blues-rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix was of Cherokee descent via his paternal grandmother, Nora Rose Moore. Oral Roberts, a Pentecostal evangelist in the 1950's through the 1990's, is also of Cherokee descent. Others who have identified aspects of their bloodline as Cherokee, while not wholly ethnic Cherokee, include:

Tori Amos, singer (maternal grandfather was part Eastern Cherokee - an Eastern Cherokee with some European ancestry)
Kim Basinger, actress (Swedish, German, Cherokee)
James Brown, singer (Black, Cherokee)
Rita Coolidge, singer
Kevin Costner, actor (Cherokee, Irish, German)
Johnny Depp, actor (mother half-Irish/half-Cherokee, father German)
Carmen Electra, actress (Irish, German, Cherokee)
Jerry Ellis, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his 1991 book Walking the Trail, One Man's Journey Along the Cherokee Trail of Tears
Shannon Elizabeth, actress (Syrian-Lebanese father and mixed Cherokee mother)
James Garner, actor
Jimi Hendrix, guitarist, singer (Black, Caucasian, Cherokee)
Val Kilmer, actor (Mongolian, Irish, Scottish, Cherokee, German, Sephardic, Swedish ancestors, paternal great-grandmother was Cherokee)
Eartha Kitt, singer (Caucasian father & Black-Cherokee mother)
Sonny Landham, Hollywood and pornographic actor (Cherokee and Seminole)
Karen McDougal, model, Playboy Playmate of the Year 1998 (Cherokee and Irish ancestors)
Joe Nichols, country singer
Chuck Norris, actor and martial artist (both parents are half Cherokee and half Irish)
Elvis Presley, singer, actor (Welsh, English, Scottish, Irish, French, Dutch, German, Jewish and Cherokee ancestors)
Burt Reynolds, actor (Cherokee, Irish, Italian)
Salli Richardson, actress (Black-Cherokee mother & Italian-Irish father)
Robert Rauschenberg, painter (German, Cherokee)
Ronnie Spector, singer (Caucasian father & Black-Cherokee mother)
Tina Turner, singer (Black, Cherokee)
Liv Tyler, actress (father Steven Tyler is Cherokee, Russian, and Italian, mother Bebe Buell is of French descent)
Steven Tyler, singer of Aerosmith (Cherokee, Russian, Italian)
Tony Joe White, singer (Caucasian, Cherokee)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee

[aroundtheworld]

...and they all look it, too.

[asdf]

Not Chuck.

[aroundtheworld]

seizure said:

Not Chuck.

In person he does. I know the red hair is a throw-off but something about his mouth area is wierd...

[asdf]

Oh, he's mesognathous or something?

[ndrthl]

aroundtheworld said:

seizure said:

Not Chuck.

In person he does. I know the red hair is a throw-off but something about his mouth area is wierd...

Do you correlate weirdness and non white traits?

[aroundtheworld]

ndrthl said:

aroundtheworld said:

In person he does. I know the red hair is a throw-off but something about his mouth area is wierd...

Do you correlate weirdness and non white traits?

Do you like to read too much into threads on message boards?

The answer is "no"? I've seen Mr. Norris in person(shorter than I expected) and he appears to have a bit of Amerindian mixture. It seemed to have manifested itself only slightly in certain features.

[asdf]

Mesognathy would be weird for a caucasoid and not very harmonious.

[aroundtheworld]

Here it's obvious IMO. He is from Oklahoma.



I thought he was 100% Germanic before.

[Hairless]

[aroundtheworld]

khangard said:

that's kinda what I mean about his mouth right here.

[heavenwood]

I can see what you're saying. Has that classic American Indian look.

[aroundtheworld]

I wish I had photoshop. I would put two braids on with a split in the middle. There is a Cherokee guy in the govt who is 1/2 and looks like that but with brown hair.

[eufrenio]

Is it not the case that individuals claiming to be half-cherokee or any other tribe, are in fact more like 1/4 or 1/8 because pure Indians are very rare even in reservations? People identifying as Indian may be less than 1/8 Indian.

[Yankel]

Kim Basinger, Shannon Elizabeth, James Brown, Kevin Costner, etc. look American Indian? Hahahaha. Okay, and Alexandre Dumas looks Med.