a 1/4 of a 1/4?
you don't need to know what % you are , your heritage is something that you feel in your heart
% of race was what white people used back in the day to decide if you could be educated to join white society
to alot of people to ask what % of a race you are is very disrecpectful
so look in you heart - and who do you see
1/16th
1/16th is good.
In order to find out percentages, you must make two decisions....
First, you must make an arbitrary decision about which generation to stop at. In your question, you have arbitrarily decided to stop at your 2nd great grandmother's generation. Since this is an arbitrary decision, any percentages derived from that are also arbitrary.
Second, you must assume that all the people at that arbitrary generational stopping point are full blood <somethings>. Again, rather bogus since you can't possibly state that someone is full blooded <something> unless you know THEIR ancestry...but their ancestry back to when? Some earlier arbitrary generation?
Think 125 years from now. YOUR great great grandaughter now posts the question...My great great grandmother was full blood American and I wanted to know how much I was? What's the answer? She arbitrarily picked YOU as the stopping point. You are American. She assumed full blooded.
So you see, this is a fruitless effort. What you can say is my Great great grandmother was a native American. That is WONDERFUL and cool information. Just as I can say my 3rd great grandfather was Irish. But I can't say he was full blooded Irish, don't even know if his parents were Irish. But that doesn't make me 1/32nd Irish.
maybe i'm 3/4 German 1/4 French from my parents.
If your great great grandmother was full-blooded and no other Native blood has come into the mix since then you would divide by 1/2 for each generation IE: If her husband had no native blood then her children would be 1/2 by blood. If none of them married anyone with native blood all their children would be 1/4 by blood. Then 1/8, then your generation would be 1/16. That is if no other native blood came into your direct line from her.
For most Federally Recognized Tribes or Nations that is not enough to be considered for membership in the tribe. If you can provide proof of the direct line from you to her and she is indeed full-blooded and appears on a roll of Native Americans you can apply for a CDIB (Certified Degree of Indian Blood) card that would state your blood quantum. The proof has to be in the form of certified birth, death, marriage certificates...
But remember this: It's not the quantity of Native blood flowing through your veins, it's the quality of it!! People with Native blood seem to know things that others around them don't. Read the following:
Blood Memory
I now understand and have verified over the years that there are people that actually have "Blood Memory" or "Inherited Memory" or "DNA Memory”. This `Blood Memory' is something that a person with just a drop of Native American Indian heritage will have.
I also recognize that people from other continents have the same thing with their ancestry. IE: Irish being called back to their Druid and/or Celtic ancestry. Swedish being called back to their Saami ancestry. Australian mixed bloods being called to the Aborigine ancestry. And so on.... Some foreign continental people will misjudge being called to the Native American ways as theirs, but will refuse to believe that they are being called back to their own roots.
Blood Memory can manifest itself in many ways:
Sometimes as dejavue experiences. Been there, done that, and know the right way without ever being taught by someone else.
When reading anything about your ancestry you will, if you can listen, hear the dissonance of printed errors. I experienced this, and I did not know about Blood Memory then, when trying to read Mooney's book on the Cherokee people. I've found that he used his euro-centric baseline to erroneously judge what/why the Cherokee people were doing. Can you just imagine the Elders telling him stories and laughing behind his back about the “dumb white man”. I am appalled that the online encyclopedia has now adopted Mooney's writings as their “facts".
When you are drawn to a specific place in the forest, a lake, a boulder, or mountains, or to wild animals, for unknown reasons then you are being "called". Your ancestry is pulling you back to where you belong. You must first learn how to listen by discarding your preconceived notions about nature and the environment.
When you hear dance drums your feet will move on their own and in time to the beat. Most likely you will feel something - a rarely felt before exhilaration in your mind. It may be like a warm fuzzy feeling of being home and you will crave more. Listening to a tape or CD is not the same as being with the `live spiritual feelings' generated by the attendee's, because the `feelings' are not recorded.
When wild animals or birds will do uncommon things around you. You can actually talk to them and get a response. Don’t plan on getting a human response though. Let your heart experience the utmost warm LOVE you can think of. They will feel it too.
Your daily life will be more on a spiritual plane. IE: Going to church will not fulfill your spiritual needs. Hugging a tree will be more spiritual. Listening to the dance drums will move your heart more so than a fiery sermon. Being silent in a forest listening to the whispering of trees breathing, the wind thru the branches and leaves, the whooshing of birds wings, the four legged, the tiny clatter as ants and other crawlies clean Elohi Etsi - Mother Earth. Lie on a huge boulder until you can feel or hear the distant rumble of deep earth. All will fulfill you more than a day in church.
You may feel, or have felt, that you do not fit in anywhere. Our white culture is based on greed and ownership. The NA culture is based on Love and Respect. Our white culture says you must conform and be like everyone else or they will kill you. The NA culture honors and protects individualism. In other words "proudly whom you are supposed to be".
White religions believe that you must have a "preacher" or "pastor" or "priest" to tell you how to live and how to pray to your God. Native American Spirituality acknowledges no one between Unequa and you. When you pray it is direct to Unelanvhi - God. The only God that all the world's religions pray to. Your prayer return is direct to you and only you can interpret that response since no one has ever lived what you have lived and can never really know nor understand what you actually need.....Only Unequa - Great Spirit, Unelanvhi - God, or Unetlanvhi - Creator can do that. Remember that old adage: "Walk a mile in their moccasins before you try to judge them". These returns or responses may come as visions, or unconscious knowing, or a two by four upside the head.
Native American Medicine or Spiritual Leaders and Elders cannot and will not try to tell you what you need. Not how you must walk your path or how you are to pray. Their job is to point you in the right direction and share their personal trials and tribulations in getting to where they are today. These Elders teach Respect for all, Honesty, Compassion and Non-judgmental Love. No one is below or above. Unequa does not allow the true Native American Elders to charge for their services because their expertise was given to them. We do honor them with offerings of tobacco, money, food, gasoline, or anything else they may need.