[FR_addict]

The Cherokees Nation and the Delaware Nation have official roles of tribal members. My kids are on it with 1/32nd Cherokee blood. Neither uses it for jobs though. They also have other Indian blood, but are not registered in any other tribe.

If you can trace back your ancestors to members already on the tribal roles, you can become a member.

If Elizabeth Warren had really thought she was Indian and wanted to use it on her job applications, she could have checked into becoming an official member of the tribe. She may not have known that there is an official registration for the tribes. It looks like fraud to me.

[nikos1121]

That's right she didn't. Look at this: Warren did not meet either part of the test, and even if she believed her alleged family lore, Warren should have known that she could not show cultural identification. Warren has refused to release her personnel records which would contain the forms she signed. Warren admitted that she did not meet the legal qualifications to be considered a racial minority Harvard and U. Penn also refuse to release these employment records. As reported by The Boston Globe, Warren’s self-identification as Native American may have caused U. Penn. and Harvard Law Schools to make false federal filings with regard to faculty diversity. Neither organization will release the records Detailed genealogical investigation by a group of Cherokee genealogists showed that Warren had no Cherokee or other Native American ancestry. The findings are set forth at the blog Thoughts From Polly’s Grandaughter which based the research on over one hundred primary sources,and detailed the findings: The team and I have done an exhaustive search on the genealogy of Elizabeth Warren. We have researched ALL of her ancestral lines, but have only posted those she claimed were Indian here in the blog. None of her direct line ancestors are ever shown to be anything other than white, dating back to long before the Trail of Tears.

[Black Agnes]

If your ancestor wasn’t on a roll you have zero chance of becoming a member of a tribe.

My grandmother was half (both her parents were half), however neither of her parents or close relatives were ‘registered’ (because they lived in MS and didn’t want to get drop shipped to OK Indian territory in the 1890’s). So, in spite of my being 1/8 by DNA with a mother who has never sunburned in her entire life in spite of being raised in the south, I have zero chance of ever becoming a member of a tribe.

Lots of DNA testing by relatives doing family tree stuff has proven this btw. The tribe in question actually laughed when one relative inquired about membership. In spite of DNA testing that indicated she was 25% NA, and which tribe and which likely clan.