My grandma's grandma is 100% full blood native american...how can i keep cheaper college from this?

Question

i ment * how can i get cheaper college from this

Answer 1

my step children are 1/16 native - you need to look up the tirbe that you come from on here and contact them in regards to getting your native card.  When you apply for college you will have to have that proof to be considered for government grants i.e. minorities also check with  the tribe they may offer grants themselves and there are schools established for natives you may get a better aide by enrolling in one of those school - also depends on the degree you are going for if you get any grants and how much they will give you.

Answer 2

Their are scholarships for Native American, I am of Native American Ancestry, but I am to young to apply, but it is only worth $500.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I don't think they give college scholarships for that. I think it's only if you live on a reservation.

Answer 5

You can't unless you're an enrolled tribal member.

Answer 6

You definitely can, but you have to go through the rigorous process of being accepted into a tribe by proving your heritage and it isn't easy.

"To avoid confusion, this is probably a good place to mention that DNA testing is not accepted by any tribe for membership.  Each tribe has its own membership criteria and to my knowledge, none accept DNA as either proof or disproof.  

Tribes typically require a percent of “blood quantum”, such as 1/4th or 1/8th and in addition they generally require that you be of proven descent from an individual about whom there is no question of their Native heritage.  This is most often accomplished by the inclusion of the family in question on specific tribal rolls, plus proven descent from that family, and that the applicant is not currently less than a specific percentage Native American.  

Conceptually, this means that you could very well be mostly Native American, with 7 of your 8 direct great-grandparents being 100% Native American, but your father’s direct paternal line being European.  With proven genealogy to the tribes specifications and being 7/8th Native American, there is no question that you would be accepted on the tribal rolls.  However, a yline DNA test would reveal the European haplogroup of your father’s paternal line is not of Native heritage.  

Given the above example, you can never interpret non-Native haplogroup results of any one line to answer the much broader questions of, “do I have Native heritage”, “how much” and “where”.  What you can do at that point is to continue to test other lines in order to discover the identity of your Native American ancestor.  You will need to create a DNA pedigree chart.  

etc., etc.,

I think there may be other ways you can afford college.

Answer 7

You probably can't.  There is something called "blood quantum", which is a description of how much of your heritage is Native American.  You describe yourself as 1/16 Native American, and many universities and programs require that you are at least 1/4 Native American to benefit.

Also, you usually have to be an enrolled member of a government-recognized Native American tribe.  Each tribe has its own requirements for official admission to the tribe.  You could check with your great-great-grandmother's tribe, but as the relationship is so distant, you probably wouldn't be admitted.