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The point was that people don't discriminate against the Am. Indian culture anymore, so yes, I was serious.  You, or the other PP, [b]seems to think that because PP's grandfather had to hide his NA ancestry and lose his culture that being 1/8 or 1/16 NA still should allow for special treatment even though they are now middle class[/b].    It doesn't.

If, however, a 1/8 or 1/16 NA still lived on a Reservation and was dirt poor, then yes, you should be given some special treatment.  But the PP is middle class, so no, you don't get special treatment.

If OP was thinking that checking the NA box would garner some special treatment in a college app, then yes, you probably would.  But, I'm guessing that the College would not think that when you check that box that you are 1/16 NA.  If you are 1/16 NA, then you should check more than one box.[/quote]

No, this is the formulation:

My grandfather is 1/2 Cherokee; his father is on the Dawes rolls. Because I can trace my direct ancestry back to someone who was listed on the rolls before 1905, that makes me (1/8) and my kids (1/16) eligible for Cherokee tribal membership, which we have. Some colleges ask on the application if you are Native American. As an enrolled member of the Cherokee nation--even though I look white and was raised in a middle-class household far from Oklahoma--I can truthfully answer "yes" to that question. How the college chooses to use that information is up to their policy. I am not asking for special treatment, but if special treatment is offered, and I meet the qualifications, then I can accept it without guilt. (I don't feel guilt anyhow for the reasons I explained above--government policies destroyed our culture, so I think it's pretty shitty to turn around and use my disconnection from my ethnic heritage as a reason to exclude me from the group, when that is the obvious result of federal policy.) But bottom line--if you object to a college policy that focuses on race to the exclusion of other factors, your beef should be with the college, not me. 
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