What degree of indian blood, makes you a full blood?

Question

I am 3/4 choctaw, is this almost full-blood?

Answer 1

Well we can say that you are an indian with some of white on you......

Answer 2

My first inclination is to agree that mathematically 3/4ths is almost 4/4ths, but after reading several posts written by Native American activists on the subject, I have concluded that blood quotas are imposed from the outside by either the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Dawes rolls, or their equivalent, or else the rules for a hoped for college scholarship.  

Mary Crow Dog, a Lakota-Sioux, argues,  "Being a full-blood or breed is not a matter of bloodline, or how Indian you look, or how black your hair is.  The general rule is that whoever thinks, sings, acts, and speaks Indian is a skin, a full-blood, and whoever acts and thinks like a white man is a half-blood or breed no matter how Indian he looks."

Using this line of reasoning, any child adopted by a Native American family may be ethically Indian; for example, the nine-year-old captive of a 19th-century Comanche raiding party, Cynthia Anne Parker, as an adult was so much more comfortable with her identity as "Naduah" than she was with her original personality, "Cynthia Ann", that she died of grief after being recaptured by the Texas Rangers *.  Conversely, urban, full-blooded Indians may be the Native American version of an Oreo cookie.

Bottom Line:  There are two types of full-blooded Indians.  Those who are full-blooded in the ethnological or legal sense, and those whose culture is essentially Native American.

Answer 3

4/4 is full blood so yeah it's almost. Curse that non-choctaw grandparent.

Answer 4

Yes, you can say "full blood".

The USA is a melting pot, where almost everyone is a little or a lot mixed with various groups. Being 3/4 of any group is alot in the "melting pot."

Answer 5

yea your almost a full blood.

i'm 9/32 Choctaw, 1/4 Navajo, and 1/32 Cherokee...

and some French, British, Irish, Welsh, Danish, Swiss, and Black Dutch blood.

but i'm more Native American.

and i take pride in it!

;-)