I know for a fact that I am Cherokee and western Indian. I would like to know what can be done.

In fact, in their quest to “take back their country”, they may decide to call those who have accepted the tag of African Americans immigrants and try to send them back to Africa. A DNA test might be accepted if you’re trying to prove parentage (descent from a specific person), but if you’re attempting to prove native ancestry in general, well, good luck. I never knew this, I’m interested in learning more, I always put American Indian on my paperwork I want to know about my family history.

My own features suggest that my people were not purely African. Are there ways to find out if you are part native. The big joke at Pow Wow is "Hey I have some white in me.". However, I suppose she had children with a white man because my family has native American /white features. Thanks for your work!! Ironically, the English also saw it as a more effective way to “civilize” them compared to the efforts of the French missionaries.

-- No single program explains immigrants' higher overall welfare use. In the colonial project to eliminate the landscape of Indians, these mixed-race people simply became known as “colored” people through bureaucratic erasure in public records. Do not depend on DNA tests to tell you the truth. This could answer so many questions about the information my mother gave me, the verbal history, the way we look.

I would like to trace my heritage, I am from the Northeast and was told my grandparents were of black foot and Cherokee heritage. I’m in north miami looking to establish my status as a native. In fact, “WE ARE” Afrikan and Native American! Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com.

They died in high numbers on the transatlantic journeys and succumbed easily to European diseases. Those from East Asia (32 percent), Europe (26 percent), and South Asia (17 percent) have the lowest. We are not taught the Truth, the victors write the narrative. I would need more insistence on mind finding I already sent information to north Carolina and they inform me that we wasn’t on their charts that I have to go through Oklahoma because they have several more tribes than them…thank you for this information and I will search more for having more finding concerning mind family history in order of having it of being known of my family members knowingly there roots. A mass colony of Africans were not shipped from Africa to America. We do have Indian blood. To put it another way, the difference between all eight great grandparents being Native American and seven of eight being Native American is only 6.26 percent – for most purposes not a significant difference in ancestry .

Remembering my grandma would always say no matter where we go we will always b put on the back burner because we r Glovers. The RhodeIsland Black Historical Archives has my family New York birth records. DNA testing companies will not tell the truth. …their dance…how their warriors dresses and way of life is almost the same..

1/2 half’s are still able to get full benefits, but anything below that you will only get so much but not all benefits from the tribe.

DNA tests are not accepted by most tribal governments when considering enrollment. Unfairly, many darker skinned indigenous peoples were labeled “African-American” creating generations of people who don’t know their true ancestry and were denied claims that lighter skinned indigenous peoples were able to obtain.

But her stories said she said we were not originally from their and her grandfather fought for their freedom with tribes their. Some, of the stories from my childhood were unbelieveable, but aren’t so easily dismissed with the more I learn. My family have always believed that we are of Indian descent.

Despite confusion in Washington over masks to fight the coronavirus, there is rising support among most people that they be worn in public. To apply for these benefits as American native, however, you need to obtain a Certificate of Degree of Indian or Alaska Native blood (CDIB) – card to prove your American native status. My motivations are more about knowing myself. Thank you for this. If you made it this far without USING your nativeness than you will be just fine. If we continue to allow large numbers of less-educated immigrants to settle in the country, then immigrant welfare use will remain high," he added in a statement provided to Secrets.

Find the ancestors first. I was told by my Dad that his grandma’s mother Maryanna Wolf was given that name when she was taken from her original family, that she always talked about but they couldn’t understand grandma talk half the time and plus grandma always like to eat half baked dough, and that her 1st.husband was a strong man.so thats why I want to know.

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I wish I could send you a picture Any suggestions you may have on further research methods or contacts to establish my status would be greatly appreciated. As you stated, it’s important to note that indigenous peoples had all different skin tones depending on location. Testing has become a real farce, now they are telling people of color that they are European and many other mixtures confusing the whole issue, but taking away the land claim. Only the latter provides “benefits”, i.e. Conduct genealogical research. She married a man who was part Spanish as far as I know.

Due to the constant divergence of gene pools it is more likely you would be excepted, from what I have read you need only been a very small percentage in order to be considered Native American.

They have similar origins as America in the way they started. Or contact the Bureau of Indian Affairs at www.doi.gov. In the report provided to Secrets, CIS listed these key findings: -- Welfare use is high for both new arrivals and long-time residents.

However, even immigrant households without children have significantly higher welfare use than native households without children — 30 percent vs. 20 percent. Even those of us who have done DNA testing that claims to trace you back to Africa does not exclude you from being from this land originally due to movement of our people back and forth on the planet. “If we all are not free [to be], none of us is free [to be].” – Ida B. Wells-Barnett. His father was 25 percent Cherokee and his mother decended from a different tribe.

Any 'benefits' require that you be ENROLLED with a "FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED TRIBE".

Households headed by immigrants from Central America and Mexico (73 percent), the Caribbean (51 percent), and Africa (48 percent) have the highest overall welfare use. I don’t want land, money, or membership. Hundreds of thousands were shipped to Europe and Africa as Indian slaves. They are carried out by those who have oppressed us historically and still today. Soooo how would I start to claim my money and land? Those features you are talking about are negroid- not African.. Negroes were all over the planet. Prepare for The Rude Awakening of [white and imitation white] America. State, or other.

If DNA test are not a good source, then what is? So DO NOT give up your fight, because where there’s a will, there is a way! Just want people to be informed and not mislead. Thanks for the validation I have a picture of my great great grand father and his daughter as they say one picture is worth a 1000 words. Mind work isn’t done by no means of the word. Indians found themselves caught in between colonial strategies for power and economic control. Members of some Native American tribes receive cash payouts from gaming revenue.

Also the dates of African has to wrong, off by 500 years…. Like everyone is stating my family elders state that we have Indian blood as well but do not have the evidence other than in pictures. Where mind mother mother side of the family was regenerated. My mother is native American from the menominee tribe which is located in Wisconsin and as far as our history according to my tribe and anything I’ve read.

I also discovered the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 and it’s “One Drop Rule” which classified a person with as little as one drop of African blood as black.

Both groups require that the claimant be at least 1/16 Cherokee, meaning that at least one great-great grandparent was a full-blooded Cherokee. because DNA was traced back to a certain tribe or area. My people are going through a period of increased intermarriage and as a result there are more and more Diné who are of mixed ancestry.

I really want to know the history of blacks in general. All four of my grandparents were of Native ancestry.

Of households headed by immigrants who have been in the country for more than two decades, 48 percent access welfare.

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Don’t waste your money! Mind church in which I attended also helps with mind ancestry. So the US silently declared a deadline of December 31st 2014, for those people to make land claims and identity claims.

I was told we can be linked to Choctaw. They had 2 girls and 2 boys. The $99 test that ancestry uses only test the “maternal” (mothers) bloodline. My birth record name is Carl Frederick Erickson.

I can find the tribes from that area, but what must be the percentage of authenticity, like to claim "Native American" for jobs, benefits, educational grants, US Cencus, etc.? To be honest I only researched my father’s fa completely. I’ve heard that my great great grandma and graleat grandma were black foot. If your mother is Diné so are you. Conduct Genealogical Research. And WATS even crazier is no one noes there maiden name. The US government combined the indegenious and African peoples and called the all colored, then negoes, then black and now African American. Sociopath. Get your answers by asking now. To be considered a SKIN by other Skins, you need to know your people, your history, your culture.

I was told I have a un known percentage of DNA. money. So I am Vietnamese but I took a DNA test recently and it says I have 44 percent European ancestry from Eastern Europe.

(unidenifiable DNA) I’m in the process of finding a reliable DNA company, that is if thier is any out here who will tell the truth.

.I will be very glad if I am schooled on this topic which has been bothering my mind for a long time…thank you for this eye opening research. They were then shipped from Spain to Africa as commodity for African resources.

DNA tests just don’t cut it. Most native people, of course, also are members of their respective sovereign tribes. I’ve lost so much money on ancestry .com mylife archives and so many more. When they weren’t shipped far from their home territories they too easily escaped and were given refuge by other Indians if not in their own communities.

"If immigration is supposed to benefit the country, then immigrant welfare use should be much lower than native use," said Steven Camarota the Center's director of research and the report's author. These Black Indians, now mistaken as African Americans, were shipped back to America and classified as “African Slaves.” This part of our history is what the school systems fail to mention in history programs. Coronavirus fighter Dr. Anthony Fauci has won the Washington bureaucracy’s ‘Oscar.’.