If you are a Native American, you don't have to pay taxes, you get free health care, and you get special rights like fishing and hunting rights that nobody else in the country gets, plus, you have the right to vote and can vote up everybody else's taxes. My question is, what percentage Native American do you have to be to get these rights? Does it differ if you are in a tribe or not in a tribe?
2007-04-13 08:49:08 · 19 answers · asked by Kevin 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Can a person who wasn't even born in this country and doesn't have any Native American in them get these benefits?
2007-04-13 08:57:41 · update #1
jjferg is right, my father in law is 100% cherokee and he says the same thing. And you DO NOT have to live on a reservation, you just have to be able to prove it. You can get all kinds of stuff from comodities (food) to a house.
My mother in law and father in law even had a new bedroom and bathroom built on their house. An ac with heat pump and they get full medical, have to pay nothing for prescriptions. Plus he got a house a long time ago but he let his ex wife have it, and just a few years ago they offered him another one.
2007-04-13 08:54:29 · answer #1 · answered by linda m 4 · 5⤊ 4⤋
Native American Government Benefits
2016-12-24 23:15:00 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
American Indian Benefits
2016-11-10 00:02:30 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know from the Navajo tribe you have to live on the reservation to get housing benefits as well as comedies and other benefits. School scholarships for upper level colleges you have to be 1/4 Navajo and have proven your lineage thru birth certificates and other documentation. You don t have to go to college on the reservation, we are currently living in Missouri and my 3 children are using college benefits. We are an hour away from Oklahoma and have registered with an Indian Medical Center there if we ever needed that benefit. As far as taxes, I believed only if you live on the rez. You will have to do your own research to find the genealogy you need to submit to the tribe.
2015-05-31 12:56:08 · answer #4 · answered by Jolene 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the tribe- however you have some misconceptions going there- We do pay taxes- most of our health care is covered by insurance even in Native Clinics- remember this is OUR home Casinos pay more in "donations" and "fees" than you will ever see in your life- get over your resentment---The treaties are hardly at all honored in fact most of the treaties US government entered into with California Natives have to be honored by us but not by you! Is that fair? If this was not the case you would not see so much land taken by non-natives who "inherited"their wealth and land----
If what you are seeking is Indian health benefits then you have to be descended from a California Indian or a member of a recognized tribe from outside California. There is very littl;e that comes with that however as you will need to exhaust all other avenues even welfare before Indian health pays
2007-04-13 17:55:27 · answer #5 · answered by shasta 2 · 6⤊ 2⤋
These benefits are based on the compacts made between the Tribal Nation and The U.S. Gov.
These are not benefits like the welfare act, consider them as promisses based on treaty negotiations.
The blood quantum requirements differ from tribe to tribe, the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma has the most liberal of citizenship requirements.
Federaly Recognized Tribal Nations guard their citizenship requirements very carefully.
2007-04-14 09:52:21 · answer #6 · answered by John T 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
i did a DNA test my great great maternal grandmother is full blooded cherokee my paternal grandfather is creek cherokee n seminole indian i just started a family tree on ancestry.com my paternal grandfather s family found me and they dont pay taxes and they stay on their own farm that was built by my great grandfather the cherokees in my family all were slaves and my paternal great grandmother who was seminole was also a slave i had no idea that native americans were slaves my maternal great great great grandmother who was a cherokee was a slave because she asked to be because she was in love with the masters son what are the benefits for each native american because i have alot i know my grandfathers brother dont pay taxes and i am in school am i eligible for a school benefits
2016-04-11 16:10:53 · answer #7 · answered by jasmine 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The requirements are all different depending on the tribe.
I am of the Western Cherokee. I have geneology, you have to prove someone in your lineage was enrolled and has a certificate of Indian blood(CIB). My Children are Oglala Lakota from Pine Ridge, S.D. My son had to have someone he new verify his living on the rez a designated amount of time,and other things which I don't remember.
You would need to contact the Tribal Enrollment Office of the tribe in which you wish to be enrolled.
2007-04-13 11:15:40 · answer #8 · answered by redfeatherwoman4721 1 · 5⤊ 0⤋
question, My husband in Canada born 1/4 Mohawk Indian registered in a band in Canada. We are planning on retirement in either Texas or Oklahoma. Will he be able to receive benefits in either of these states with his
status? If anyone has a link that they could share it would be greatly appreciated.
2015-07-01 08:47:38 · answer #9 · answered by cheryl j 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am 16 percent Cherokee and 4 percent Blackfoot do I qualify for anything?
2017-03-02 07:59:48 · answer #10 · answered by RachelJoAnn 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋