How to Join an Indian Tribe

To answer the question, this is not something one can just do unless they meet certain criteria.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Geneological Documentation or a family roll number that may have been passed down from the family.
• Depending on the Tribe maybe a certain census from a certain year.

1. Do genealogy documenting if neither parent is tribally enrolled.
2. If you aren't native by blood, you cannot be enrolled by a tribe. However there are rare circumstances where individuals are adopted by enrolled tribal members. This is a very personal process. This is something that one cannot expect to have done. (A lot of tribes do not practice this.)
3. Some tribes require that your blood quantum be at least half.
   This is proven through genealogy and or contacting the Tribal Enrollment Office to see if there is family of yours on the rolls.
4. Some Tribes require only that you be descended from someone on a certain roll such as the Oklahoma Cherokee Dawes Roll. Another requirement maybe that you are descended from a person on a certain final census that was taken of the tribe such as the 1910 Narragansett Census.