How much Native American blood do you need?

Question

How much do you need so the government sees you as native american?

Answer 1

Kiki...I think its one sixteenth, but I am not sure. My mom researched it at one time. Try the federal government Bureau of Indian Affairs site...it should be on there somewhere.
The Skeptical Christian
Grace and Peace
Peg

Answer 2

It varies per tribe: More detailed information is provided below (especially paragraph 2). Hope this helps!
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To become enrolled in one's tribe is often a difficult process. Once one is enrolled one will have certain rights as a Native person. It is true that no one needs to prove their ethnic identity but to have full access to rights for Native people one must be enrolled.

To become enrolled one must first should call one's tribe and find out the enrollment requirements. They are different per tribe.
For most tribes you have to prove descendency and have a certain blood quantum. To prove descendency one needs to have some record of her belonging to a member of the tribe that was recognized by the tribe at some point, hopefully an individual that was enrolled at some point. The average blood quantum standard is 1/4. Unless you are Cherokee, they accept much lower blood quantum standards.

If you don't have contact with an enrolled member then you can ask the tribe to look for his last name. They can look this up and see if your family line is registered. If so then your in luck. If they don't immediately find it then you can use the tribal newspaper and submit an article asking if anyone has lineage to your tribal member.

Many Native people can never become enrolled because standards of enrollment are high and were set up by the White government to oppress Native people and Native people have yet to change them.

To become more involved in one'sculture one might want to look up local Native organizations or local tribes. Try going to Pow-wow's (because they are easy to find) and talk to community members there. Many colleges/universities have a Native student union where one can get involved or get more information.

Please remember ancestry is very difficult for many Native people.

By the way, I am Native, so I have some knowledge pertaining to this.

Answer 3

I am a registered Cherokee. i will tell you from experience and also from communicating with the BIA. You need at least 1/16th native american blood. You need to be able to trace back your heritage. You need to be able to provide proof, paternal or maternal, that there is native american in your family. If there is, do a search for that tribes web site, email someone there in charge and request an application for access to the tribe. this might take a while, but be patient.

Answer 4

Too much i think.

I'll agree with the guy who gave a lecture in Canada called "why do you hate us so much".

He talked extensively about this. Of course those with more native blood benefit in the short term. In the long term, there will be nobody considered to be pure native blood and it will all go to the government.

Answer 5

Either being a member of a federally recognized tribe (like Fawn said) or being at least 1/4 Native but not enrolled (happens in the case of adoption of Native kids into non-Native families)

Answer 6

thank you. i'm uninterested in listening to approximately those people who declare they're "a million/sixteenth" (there replaced right into a female here who actual did say that) or in simple terms say my "great-grandmother is an element cherokee" why is it continuously cherokee? forget approximately the tribal enrollment, many natives here have faith that somebody enrolled in a tribe is on an analogous footing because of fact the excellent natives. No, because of fact many tribes settle for people who've approximately 6% NA ancestry which isn't something. it extremely is fully ridiculous, might we are saying that a black person who's 6% white ancestry is 'white'? No so why can we take care of this situation in yet differently? i don't care if a white person has tribe enrollment card, they don't look to be community american. regardless of in the event that they "sense" one hundred% community american and love the custom. i admire Italian custom and be attentive to a pair Italian besides the undeniable fact that it does not make me Italian. I believe you. it could be a minimum of 25% after that then this is not significant. frequently, someone basically reflects the characteristics of a race whilst they have above 20% so it style of feels dumb for a lily white person with auburn hair and coloured eyes to declare they're 6% or a million/8 community American. for somebody to be seen community american they might could desire to have some helpful factors of that race. i don't be attentive to why it somewhat is even a question. How can somebody be community american in the event that they have no of the helpful factors? It does not make experience to me.

Answer 7

My Native American friends told me it was 1/4 to be registered.
I'm sure if you ck on N.A. sites there is someone connected with
current government standards that could give you the right answer.

Answer 8

Who cares what the government thinks... I think if someone is an accepted member of their tribe and community is more what matters...

Answer 9

helps to be born american on a reservation where the gov..automatically gives u a gps number so's they can track u all ur life...LOL adoption from fake groups dont count..

Answer 10

I dont no I am scottish Irish and german (padre saide) and Black Foot ( yes those people who stole gorses from lewis and clark) mowhawk and crow foot