Do you have native american blood and expect/would like benefits?

Question

my grandparents were native american, but i've always felt that the benefits, scholarships, etc. should be left to the people who are 100% native american.

Answer 1

IMO not necessarily just those who are 100%, since there are plenty of people who are half or more and entirely raised within their culture, but to those who are actually a part of their tribe and who need it most.

People who have nothing to do with that part of their heritage, or are just now trying to find out about a very small percent of it that they have, have no business getting their hands on those scholarships, etc. It should go to the kids it is meant for and who need it.

Benefits is the wrong reason to want to "rediscover" that part of a family tree...

Answer 2

What about the Chicksaw?  They sold their land for a hefty sum and went to Oklahoma on their own.  They even fought in the civil war on the side of the confederacy and were in fact the last of the confederates to surrender.  I am not opposed to them getting benefits, but do they still count in a world full of entitlements based on the alleged universal oppression of non-whites?

  

Answer 3

yes, i'm half native, but never asked for benefits either.

Answer 4

my bf is half but he never get or ask for benefit, he say it for only full blood natives.

Answer 5

This is why they only allow people as far as second generation to claim Native Status.  

Answer 6

If only more descendants thought as you do...

Most descendants that I run into in real life and on the internet want to know where they can sign up for benefits.  Many of those don't even know which tribe they descend from, let alone exactly who in the family their heritage descends from.