I think so.My great grandfather from North Carolina hid out in the mountains to avoid the census takers.He hid to avoid the Trail of Tears.This is what I was always told.BUT someone that does genealogy said I did not have Cherokee blood.

I disagreed with her because I believe family lore and history over the census,specially my great grandfather's stories he told me as a child.

Looking at my mother and my great grand parents you can see features and coloring matching photos of earlier native history.