tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post608152487961038138..comments2024-03-21T19:08:05.737-07:00Comments on Genealogy's Star: Native American Tribal Enrollment and DNA Testing -- Part OneJames Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-7271055370078256372021-06-03T10:50:44.181-07:002021-06-03T10:50:44.181-07:00Thank you! I was adopted at the age of 7. I am now...Thank you! I was adopted at the age of 7. I am now 68. I found my biological mother who was a member of the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians. She has passed but told me I should research to see if I can be accepted by the tribe. I contacted the tribe but they said a moratorium was placed on enrollment since a law suit that threw 60 members out of the tribe. Those members were adopted into the tribe but did not have the required 1/8 blood. I am just the opposite. I was adopted out of the tribe and according to 23andMe I have over 20% Native American blood all from my mother.<br />I have contacted the Bureau of Indian Affairs, The Children Home Society (my adoption agency in Jacksonville, FL), the governor, both senators, the tribe, the San Diego newspaper that covered the law suit, 23andMe, etc. Everyone responded to let me know that they received my data except the BofIA. But none has responded to give me advice or direction. <br />So I, a 20% Native American, have no voice! I have no rights!<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02197780681776453939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-91758234642351057132017-09-13T08:52:39.163-07:002017-09-13T08:52:39.163-07:00Nice post. Your thoughts and questions are alignin...Nice post. Your thoughts and questions are aligning with my own. My recent DNA results yield 16% Native (North American Indian, or as we say north of the 49th parallel, Indigenous peoples or aboriginal Canadians). My father is half Aboriginal (his mother was British, father Ojibwa--I found his lineage linked to Potawatomi [Chicago area]).<br /><br />Apparently, that should label me as quarter Native--but what is this 16% value really mean?Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15554294133921567064noreply@blogger.com