Native Americans plz help. no.33?
I recently found out my great grandpa was a registerd number 33. Not sure what that means. Im white and native american. My tribes are Shawnee and Souix and possibly witchita my uncles ex girlfriend helps ppl find there tribes so she said she has to do more research to see if its our family who is witchita but I lost contact with her.
*How do I go about getting my certificate of indian blood is there like a dna test or where could I find the papers with my great grandma and grandpa's names. I would love to go back to my roots and get intouch with some of my lost heritage.
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No. 33 might be your great grandfather's base roll number however there is no way of knowing if it really is or not unless you contact the tribe where he was enrolled. (33 could have just been his high school football jersey number.) You need to continue to do research until you find the exact tribe your great grandfather was enrolled with. Once you've determined which tribe, you need to contact the tribe and speak to someone in enrollment who will verify if your great grandfather was enrolled there or not. If your great grandfather was enrolled, the tribe can give you more information that you can use to obtain a CDIB. The CDIB is produced by the US Bureau of Indian Affairs using this application...http://www.doi.gov/bia/docs/CDIBapplication2008-20... You'll need to provide birth/death certificates linking you to a known enrolled tribal member and provide documents from the tribe proving that person was enrolled.
First things first: Get your Birth Certificate, then get your mom or dad's (depending upon which side this grandfather came from) and continue to go back. This is needed for enrollment anyway, however, the area of birth sometimes provides a clue as to which tribe you could be descended of.
I am an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe with family on the Cheyenne River, Mdewankton, Lower & Upper Sioux Communities et. on my father's side and people enrolled all over Oklahoma including in the Shawnee Tribes there (the Absentee-Shawnee and the Loyal Shawnee Tribes are both in Oklahoma) there were some Shawnee Cherokee's as well, you may need to check their rolls. As for the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes located here in Oklahoma I reccomend you contact them as well as all the tribes above once you get a little more information, you may want to find out what base roll their Membership Roll is derived from.
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Heres some interesting info to help you start your search, it says first get all the info you can regarding your grandfather to go any further
http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/heritage/native-...
Heres a very interesting long informative on NA, at wikipedia you might enjoy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_t...
I could not find one thing about registered 33. Its either his percentage of blood, tribe number, or something else, but no matter what I put in google I couldnt find anything about a registered number. Provable ancestry documentation is what would be needed, not a blood test, ties to lineage, of someone acknowleged as American Indian with the government. Some tribal members are given money, some permission to live on reservations, depends on state, and tribe, some get nothing, and if the tribe is too small of existing living members, they are written in with a group of other lineage as far as being known to the government as an American Indian. I have a friend whose husband was one of the few last remaining indians from a tribe I think she said was in N Calif, so his group was pushed into another so was changed the name for paperwork purposes only, that particular tribe as far as she said, got no benefits as far as money or other things, as some tribes do nationwide. AI though as a legal linage has its ranks as far as being considered for work, or given priority for gov programs open to all citizens.
Could you edit your question and put in your great-grandfather's name??
http://media.nara.gov/media/images/31/1/31-0034a.j... is page 33, and gives the registered number, name (from Brinkley, Frank W. through Brown, B. Lee), and state in the "Index to the Applications Submitted for the Eastern Cherokee Roll of 1909 (Guion Miller Roll**)"
**the OTHER Native American Index/census taken after the Dawes Rolls.
All 3 tribes are basically in the midwest US--The Wichita is in Kansas, the Sioux in the Dakotas, and The Shawnee's main office is in Miami, Ohio (see http://www.shawnee-tribe.com/ ).
If you really get interested, and want to do some research, don't forget to check out some of the resources listed here: http://www.cyndislist.com/native.htm