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Originally Posted by roxanna425
the rolls are the province of the tribes because as a sovreign nation the TRIBE gets to determine who is eligible for enrollment. nowadays in order to be recognized as a member of a tribe you have to be accepted as such byt the individual tribe. in some tribes it's 1/4, others 1/16, then there's tribes where you ahve to trace your geneology to the original enrollment rolls. to determine whether you are a member of a tribe AND GET BENEFITS AS SUCH you have to contact the tribes goverment and find out what the reqs are. first you have to narrow down the tribe. otherwise you can be an "unenrolled" member of a specific tribe.
why doesn't your mother get a geneology specialist to trace her bio parents geneology?
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While we are soveriegn nations, we are still subject to the BIA (in the US at least--I don't know anything about Canada). For MEMBERSHIP purposes, each tribe sets the qualification. However for CDIB (Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood) you must link to an enrollee. This is a federal guidline in order to be recognized as Indian by the federal government, and by extension to belong to a federally recognized tribe. This will not apply to non-recognized groups. The blood quantum requirement for some groups is in addition to the geneological link to the original enrollee.
I do agree with the geneology suggestion. The DNA tests are not, at this point, being allowed as evidence for admission into any tribe.
Even if you are never able to enroll, if you can find the nation you can participate in cultural activities.