Native Americans did not have the same ideology regarding race as modern folks. In Choctaw traditions inheritance of moiety, etc. was matri-linear. So, a white male could marry into the Choctaw Nation. This was similar to other tribes, noting the mixed-blood Creeks and related Red-Stick Chieftans discussed earlier. Prior to the placement of 'blood partitioning' to determine rights to tribal lands, etc. there was not the idea of race among the Native Americans as we see in European skin colour and physical-based criterion. Inclusion and degree of acceptance was based on cultural kinship more than physicality or blood proportion.
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