(June 18, 2015 at 12:55 pm)Secular Elf Wrote: It is the same with claiming Native American ancestry. Some tribes will allow you to claim membership if you can prove you have 1/16 Indian blood in your DNA.
My mom is 1/4 Choctaw, and if she registers with the tribe, any of her immediate descendants, like myself, can also register. So, they'll let you claim with only 1/8 ancestry.
And for the record, I look super fucking white.
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