Is it true that in oklahoma u can recieve a check if you have native american blood in you?

Question

i was wondering cause a family member told me cause i recently found out my dad was Cherokee and blackfoot if its true how do you apply for it or how ever u do it

Answer 1

You have been misled.  

One, you MUST be able to prove your lineage to someone who was an enrolled tribal member, normally one on the Dawes rolls. Your father may well have Native heritage.. but not everyone chose to be enrolled.  The tribe does not accept DNA testing for enrollment. It has to be verifiable documents.

If you can prove your lineage, and your ancestor was on the rolls, you then apply for enrollment. I will mention that I am aware many tribes are more selective regarding enrollment, for the simple fact of persons wanting to join only for financial reasons.  I can't tell you what the exact benefits may be.

Answer 2

Cherokee as well as other native american indians do receive certain benefits. You have to be able to PROVE your lineage and a lot of the benefits have to be used on the reservation. So unless your plan is to move to the reservation, it's probabaly not going to do you a lot of good.

Answer 3

I'm pretty sure you're going to need to have papers to prove your lineage first.

Answer 4

No, that Is not true. And my children are indian so I should know. I had heard that same rumer for years, Although the benefits are okay, medical, housing and food, they do not send you a check.

Answer 5

You have to be able to have documentation that shows you have a 1/4 i believe. And your money will be issued from the tribe itself, not the state government.

Answer 6

Don't we have enough welfare already?  The object is to get people employed and off welfare, not add more.

Answer 7

yes and also in mississippi too.  but you have to have paperwork showing your lineage like ancestors birth records.

Answer 8

YOU LAZY ***. GET A JOB.

Answer 9

First of all neither the state or the Federal government give anybody anything for being Native American.

Second, you have to be a member of a Federally Recognized Tribe to be eligible for any money whatsoever.

Third the money that the tribes get either from the Federal Government or Casinos, goes to the tribe as a whole and very little if any goes to individual members of the tribe.

Now you can (if you are a member of a Federally Recognized Tribe) be eligible for tuition assistance, grant programs, health care, etc etc.  But you MUST be a member of the tribe to receive any of these benefits.

For the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma you MUST be able to prove a direct lineage from someone on the Dawes Roll.  There is no blood quantum requirement for the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.   Every Federally Recognized Tribe has a base roll and to be a member of the tribe a person has to be able to trace their lineage back to someone on that base roll.