Can you register as native american if?
you're great granmother was apart of the tribe?
My great grandma was from louisiana and a tribal member of a choctaw tribe over there. My grandmother was mixed and my dad has some other native american on his dad's side but I don't think anyone on his dad's side was a tribal member let alone from that exact tribe he never even really knew him. My mom isn't at all from any american indian tribe. So could I get registered or would I be denied?
Update:no from what I know it's only an eighth native american. That's of what I can prove.
Update 3:not really my dad's more black looking than anything and I've been told I look mestizo
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If your great grandma was full blood, it would make you at least 1/8th indian. I'm pretty sure you can get registered. I think you can go to 1/16th. My brother-in-law is a mixed blood and from what he said you had to have the eldest living relative register you.
There is only one Choctaw band in LA and that is the Jena band...they were only federally recognized fairly recently. They came up with a base roll in 1985 and have a 1/4 blood quantum requirement. If your family was not around in that community when they were compiling the roll they more than likely "missed out." You would also not meet the BQ standards for enrollment. However, if you have a legit tie to this community...nothing would prevent you from learning more about your family and your heritage...IF there is a real tie (you need to verify this of course). Good luck!
FYI-
Those DNA Admixture Tests are so innacurrate (the kind they show on George Lopez Show). The mtDNA and Y-DNA tests ARE accurate in showing difinitive Native American markers on either the maternal or paternal line althought they can't identify "amount" of Native blood. They just indicate that you have a Native American ancestor down either of these lines...
Those newer admixture tests looking at genetic sequences that are thought to represent a particular ethnicity IN GENERAL. The flaw is that these markers are found in other populations/ethnic groups, just at different rates. So, basically they are only looking at the frequency of a gene sequence withing a population to make an ESTIMATION. It is a complicated algorithm...just to come up with a BEST GUESS based on gene sequence that you happened to inherit. Full siblings can come up with vastly different numbers. Also, there is a WIDE margin of error associated with those tests...usually, this margin is ignored...people with claim the percentage of "Indian" they "are" like it is some LOCKED IN or "official" percentage - "I'm 17.7% Native American."
The thing is, those admixture tests are calibrated to make guesstimations on Americans, who are a mixed population - makes it harder because there is more variety of gene sequences to look at and "identify." So, for example, Indian blood is expected more than Jewish ancestry in the general population...so it is given greater weight than other ethnicities...of course, the interesting thing is that some people with verifiable European Jewish ancestry can show up as "Native American"...same with some central asian and eastern european ethnic groups. So, you can have individuals taking an admixture test who may have NO Native ancestry whatsoever, coming back with a "percentage" of Native American ancestry.
The fact that these tests are guesstimating someone's "ethnicity" based on "frequency" of genetic codes that are ALSO FOUND IN OTHER ETHNICITIES should tell you this is unscientifc and inaccurate....but then again, these testing companies are making money and most Americans really like the idea of finding out "how much" or "what" they ARE...
I think these tests are here to stay, unfortunately.
You have to be 1/4 Native American.
Ok....So you know for sure that your great grandmother was a member of the Choctaw Tribe....That makes it easy. YOU have to contact the Choctaw Tribe and get her enrollment information. Then YOU have to prove you are a descendant of hers. To prove the ancestry YOU must provide birth, marriage certificates that she the direct line from her to you... If you find that she wasn't an enrolled member then you can't prove anything...
And DNA test CANNOT tell you which tribe your ancestor may have been a member of, it just doesn't work that way....If the testing company tells you any different they are lying to you... The only thing a DNA test can tell you is if you have genetic markers in common with known Native samples the testing company has in their database... PERIOD And none of the Federally Recognized Tribes or Nations accept DNA testing to prove Native ancestry....
Jayden: Do as CoolRouge says.. thats the real deal.. You will pay for the paperwork.. but most tribes these days do not register 1/8th anymore.. most real folk look to register ON their MOTHER"S side.. always a lot do.. as in ndn ways we follow our mothers' ways..so listen to rouge.. they have many good answers and some not.LOL> sorry rouge..
My mother, father, brother, sister and myself are Purple people. We have blue eyes. I have, like, 9381038913310381098% Navajo Indian in me. I suggest you join the tribe my sister. It's the "in" thing to be Cherokee Indian these days. All of my fellow Purple brotha's and sista's with their blue eyes are doing it! Yes, you, my Native American sister are eligible to be considered Blackfoot Indian -- even if the only claim of Native American blood was the one your great grandfather had shed. Do it! Do it!
Sign up for the Blackfoot Indians. I'll be sure to relay your message to them.
Here is some linkage for you:
www.CanIbeNativeAmerican.com
www.ImnotreallyNativeAmericanItsjustcool.com
www.MyfamilykilledtheNativeAmericanculture.com
So, what are you waiting for. Go register this very instant. You are eligible!
no because you're only 1/12 native indian and that doesn't count it's what.. 6% < how can 6% = native indian how dumb
do you look Native American
Definitely not, unless you lie.