i am trying to find out how much native american blood i have. how can i do this.?

Answer 1

Below I posted detailed information on how to become enrolled with your tribe. You can also use this to find your Native heritage/ how much blood you have. Basically you need to start with last names (as many as you know as far back as you can). If you already know who in your family is Native and how much they were then it is simple math to figure it out. If your grandmother was full blood and married a non-native then divide by half to get your mom. Your mom would then be half. Then she marries a non-native. Divide by half to get you. That'd make you a quarter native. Well, you get the picture.

Information on how to become enrolled is listed below:

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, their blood quantum standards are much less.

If you don't have contact with your tribal member then you can ask the tribe to look for his last name. They can look this up and see if his 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 2

First you let all those native americans go you naughty naughty boy....no just kidding...you have to go back to the very beginning. Say your great grandfather was 100% and he married a non...their children would be 50%. If one of them married a non...they would be a quarter...and so on and so forth. But the percentages would change depending on the other half. Say your grandmother who is 50% married a man who was 100%...then their children would be 75%. If one of them married some one who is a non, then their children would be around 30%. All you do is take half of one and add it to half of the other. Simple, right?

Answer 3

You need to know what generation back was the last person who was full blood. From there, you'd keep dividing the amount in half per generation until you get to yourself...

I don't think there are any tests that can magically tell someone how much they are, that all has to come from your family tree.

Answer 4

I truly don't know. I have wondered the same thing because my children have some native blood also.

Answer 5

Are you storing it in vials or something? Fluid ounces are fluid ounces.

Otherwise, start researching your geneological past. It is labor intensive and time consuming.

Answer 6

http://www.pbs.org/race

Answer 7

Go to lab.

Answer 8

http://www.ancestrybydna.com/