RM>  Sondra, Are you saying that only Full bloods are Indian?? if so I b
RM>          differ with you, the percentage of blood line differs from
RM>          to tribe,for membership,if however you are speaking Spiritu
RM>          I will agree with you completeley,(some of the WHITEST folk
RM>          are "full blood",also some of the biggest phonies.) As for
RM>          "Granma" says, no one in my family has been a "Card Carrier
RM>          registered with any tribe since Grandpa left the Indian Ter
RM>          back about 1900,yet when my Sister worked for IBM they (IBM
RM>          Sis as Native American,simply because our Grandma said so.
RM>               I often wonder just how many 100% full bloods are arro
RM>          with inter-marrages and all of the captives who were "adopt
RM>          almost all tribes, and the family trees that"branch out"une
No, I'm not saying that at all.  Indian is a race, and if you have only 
a distant Indian ancestor, you probably aren't Indian.  On the other 
hand, Lakota is a nation, and it would be possible to be a Lakota and 
not be an Indian at all, or to be very little Indian; just as it would 
be possible to be an Indian and not be a member of any "Indian" nation. 
 Race and nation are too entirely diferent issues.  If you can prove you 
are 1/4 Indian, you can probably get a card from the US government 
certifying that you are 1/4 Indian.  But that would not cause you to be 
enrolled in any of the first nations at all, or give you any of the 
rights of the members of those nations.  Nor would it give you 
recognition by those nations.  On the other hand, you might be 1/8 
Indian, born and raised on the Lakota rez, enrolled at birth, a speaker 
of the Lakota language, etc., and then you would be recognized by other 
"Indians" as a legit member of a first nation.  Blood quantum is not, in 
most cases, the deciding factor as to whether you are, or are not, a 
member of a nation, just as it is not the deciding factor as to whether 
you are, or are not, a citizen of the United States.
                  Sondra
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