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Blatant lie, or mistaken identity? This issue is tied up in larger questions about what really entitles someone to claim he or she is Native American. Legally, U.S. citizens are Native American if they are part of a tribe or if they can prove themselves to be at least one-quarter Native American. Proving that you are of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, for instance, can be as easy as tracing your family tree back to a distant relative on an obscure tribal census taken in 1906. Other Cherokee Nations require a blood quantum—the proportion of tribal...
...fuss over blood quanta, blood ultimately has little to do with how “Native American” a person is. Half Creeks may make the personal choice to minimize their Creek identity and stress their other half. By the same token, Cherokees generations removed from the tribe may still cherish their Cherokee heritage...
...tribal Native American ties. Harvard should co-opt this procedure as well. If the ultimate goal of the College’s admissions process is to create as diverse a student body as possible, the College shouldn’t risk accepting applicants who are neither affiliated with a tribe, nor familiar with Native American identity. Presumably, there are other, similarly qualified Native American applicants who exhibit these traits—and who would thus add more to the diversity of the College’s student body—that the College could accept instead...
Within the Native community, there are vast discrepancies in the percent of Native blood necessary to qualify one as a member of a tribe. While someone who is 1/64 Cherokee can still register with the Cherokee nation, someone who is 1/64 Lenape cannot register with the Lenape nation. Someone who is 1/64 Cherokee may strongly identify with his tribe, but he also may not; the same can be said for the Lenape. One can be issued a Tribal ID card, however, and the other cannot. This example indicates that the tribal identification card is irrelevant to one?...
With the vast amount of intermarriage between Natives and non-Natives, tracing one’s bloodline can become complicated. A person might know he has a Native American grandparent, yet he might be distant from that relative. He might be unsure of the tribe. But that does not change the fact that he is Native American. He is not dishonest in checking the box accordingly, even though he can provide no proof and does not know his tribe...