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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to the family tree put together by my weird middle-aged, unemployed cousin at his home computer from data sources called "Google" - I'm a descendent of Pochohantas.

Bring on the scholarships!!! I have proof. My kids actually have a hook. [/quote]

You don't have proof. Documents (US census, military pension, or other government records, birth/death/marriage certificates, wills and contemporaneous records) are proof. Anyone who claims any ancestry prior to 1900 (slave, native American, immigrant story) without checking the records...and a family tree without each step supported by documents is not itself a "record"...is just playing the child's game of telephone with about the same level of reliability.

I actually received a half scholarship for college based on my ethnic heritage, and we had to show the paperwork all the way back to the boat. If you want to claim any benefit to being Native American, you need to provide your tribal enrollment number for a federally recognized tribe and they will check it they same way they verify your status for in-state tuition. CA will surely do the same for this benefit. [/quote]

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