How much native american blood do you have?

How can you find your Native American blood Quantum level?

• I am trying to figure out my Native American blood percentage... The problem is that in my family a lot of the Native American people that were married to parts of my family would claim caucasion for the census. Another problem is that my biological father is something, but he was adopted and we aren't allowed a copy of his birth certificate, and yes before someone says something I have called the adoptive agency that he was adopted from and asked for the names of his true mother and father. But, they would not allow it. So I am at an impass and the internet is not helping my situation because I can not find a good site to send blood too. I have many reasons to want to know my blood percentage.

• Answer:

  The census is irrelavent. Say an ancestor shows up on a federal census as full blood, but is enrolled on official rolls as 3/4...that is what you would have to go off of. The good ole BIA likes to calculate blood quantum from official tribal rolls, nothing else. And if you have family that claimed White and they aren't on the rolls then you are truly out of luck. Take it one step further, there are individuals that are listed as "Indian" on the federal census that did not get enrolled...and again, they would not be able to caculate blood quantum for these descendants. You can only calculate a blood quantum based on official tribal documents that enumerate an individual's blood degree. And you can only claim you have Native American family if they were recognized tribal members. If they "hid it" so well as to show up in census records as White and are not found in any tribal documents, how exactly are they Native? As far as adoption, that is a similar story. Without documentation it is really just hearsay. What if he "something" that you assume is Native and it turns out to be something else entirely different. It is no use GUESSING. You have to follow the paper trail.