64 Cherokee blood, could I still get a college scholorship?

Question: If I have 1/64 Cherokee blood, could I still get a college scholorship!?
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Yes, you certainly can! I am Cherokee (quite a bit more than you, however), living on Cherokee tribal lands here in Oklahoma!. I know for a fact that if you are enrolled with the Western Band of Cherokees, that is to say, the branch here in Oklahoma, then you can get scholarships!. If you are a Keetoowah Cherokee (Eastern Band), they have different guidelines, and in fact they won;t let you claim heritage unless you are 1/4th or 1`/8th if I remember correctly!.

In any case, I encourage you to contact whatever tribe you are enrolled with!. If you are not an official member of these federally recognized tribes, however, you are out of luck in that regard!. Don;'t give up hope, though, there are lots of scholarships out there!.

In addition to this information, you may be interested in learning more about your heritage or the heritage of other tribes!. I have compiled a huge list of ebooks that I have scoured from the web over my years of geneaology research!. I have published this list in an online news syndication called Associated Content!. The link is below if you are interested!. There are a good 2,000 books represented here!. Keep in mind that each link is not one book, but rather an entire collection of books under that subheading!.

Good luck to you!

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First of all, applicants officially need to establish descent from an ancestor already registered as a Cherokee to become an official, card-carrying member of either the Eastern or Western Cherokee Tribe!. The requirements of membership for each group are quite different, but the application process is similar!.

All members of the Western Cherokee Nation that President Andrew Jackson forced to relocate to Indian Territory in 1838 have at some point documented proof of direct descent from an ancestor listed on either the Dawes or Miller Rolls that established Cherokee citizenship around the turn of the 20th century!. Even so, the Western Cherokee don't require tribal members to have a particular degree of Cherokee blood, perhaps because so many of them have intermarried with Anglo-Americans through the years!. That means all prospective tribal members have to supply a paper trail of birth certificates, marriage licenses, and the like whereupon the Bureau of Indian Affairs will then determine the applicant's degree of Indian blood, which means filing out a Certified Degree of Indian Blood application!. IF the BIA proves this application valid, it will then issue a CDIB card!.

The East Cherokee, who hid in the hills, however, require applicants for tribal membership to meet more stringent requirements: The applicant must not only be a direct descendant of an individual listed on the Baker Roll in 1924, but he or she must also be at least 1/16 Eastern Cherokee!.

The late Bedford Forrest Carter (a!. k!. a!. Asa Earl Carter), a former Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon, established a second career for himself during the 1970s as the author of the best-selling young adult novel, "The Education of Little Tree", by defrauding the reading public and pretending to be part Cherokee!. But even today, "cashing in" on a very small percentage of Indian blood can still be quite controversial!. Indeed, some individuals of African-American and Cherokee ancestry have not been permitted to register for tribal membership because their ancestors failed to sign the appropriate membership rolls!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

If you are meaning if you can get it through the Tribe,i doubt it, but if you are smart enough or athletic enough you may be able to get one by regular means!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

probably not!.
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