[muawiyah]

Where you have a large number of Indians around, and that includes Oklahoma where 15% of the population report being some part Indian, you get a lot of intertribal mixing.

The 1/32 rule allows real Indians who are 100% Indian to belong to some recognized tribe. Else, you could find some of those recognized bands dwindling down to a handful of people.

Remember, it's not how Indian you are, but what's your blood quanta running back to someone who was listed in the Dawes Rolls.

[Smokin' Joe]

Thanks for that explanation. Around here the tribes tend not to mix quite so much, and most are from one band or another.