DNA Testing? Native American Scholarships?

You don't need DNA. You need birth records for relatives that are members of a tribe. Try the tribal website http://www.cherokee.org/

REAL native americans have no choice in the matter. We are BORN, we are not researched, tested and verified. We simply look to our parents...who usually enroll us in our tribes before we are old enough to have a say in it ourselves. We are not born into privelege, quite the opposite in fact. We are born into oppression and more often than not, poverty. Tribes don't care for one another based on blood percentage (blood doesn't mix like water and oil anywyas) We care for one another because we are family. If your family broke away from the tribe, sucks for you. Not our problem. You do not get to dip your hands into what we earned. If a man in texas found oil in his property, would he have a ethical, legal or even familial duty to share it with a person who was able to trace their family history back to the mans great, great, great, great,great, great grandfather? Of course not. Even if you were able to substantiate your claims of ancestry, you are not cherokee.

Where are you Cherokee ancestors from? If you post their names, perhaps someone can give you more detail.

My son Paid for my DNA test. Last year. not from your Company. So When I my test came back. I had read That what were they were looking for Like. Europen Britsh It did not mach, so they send my son a anothe chart Of my test It reads I have Native American in me. But as you go up on my Chart It read That read that my family tree Have Europen That they claim it do not match I hope you can shed some light for me. Thanks now Do I have take another Test or Do I go by that I am Native American, Or Did they Made a Mistake some were' Thank Darlene P,S My sis. Told Me that They Made big Mistake On My Chart She Told our Mother Was a full Blooded Cherokee. So need some answer. I hope you can help me. My email is [email protected].

Wiininiskwe gave mostly a good answer, so I won't repeat that. However, there is one inaccuracy and one thing that she left out. The Cherokee Nation is one of the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes. The other two tribes are the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians. They are seperate tribes. With that being said, something that is forgotten is that the Cherokee Nation has no blood quantum requirement in citizenship, so if the one of the asker's parents was/is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, then the asker would be a citizen even if he/she possessed a CDIB stating that he/she possessed 1/2048th blood quantum (I think the official term is blood degree when dealing with the CDIB). Now, the United Keetoowah Band requires a 1/4th blood quantum and the Eastern Band requires a 1/16th blood quantum for citizenship, and hence you could have people who have descent from people in those two tribes who are not citizens (although you would need to prove legitimate descent, and it wouldn't matter). However, the only way that he/she could be descended from someone from the Cherokee Nation and is not a citizen is by voluntary revocation of citizenship (as most tribes don't allow for dual tribal citizenship). However, this was only an issue when the Cherokee citizenship process was more open, with the United Keetoowah Band and the Cherokee Nation using the same base roll for tribal citizenship.