Are the North Carolina Cherokee Indians Separdic Jews?

Jeannette Holland Austin
3 min readOct 9, 2017

Many people have expressed the fact that the Cherokees resembled the Jewish population. Indeed, my own visits into Cherokee, North Carolina seem to confirm this. Unfortunately, the sampling of the DNA appears to be incomplete. Cherokees have high levels of test markers associated with the Berbers, native Egyptians, Turks, Lebanese, Hebrews and Mesopotamians. Genetically, they are more Jewish

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