Our adopted daughter is 1/8th Indian. Does she qualify for college and other Indian funding?
I have Cherokee ancestory so the question that you asked was interesting. I wasn’t interested in government funding but was more interested in relationship to being a tribal member. The following information I found so I copied it for accuracy from the link below. It isn’t real helpful but should give you a place to start. Who Is an American Indian or Alaska Native? As a general principle an Indian is a person who is of some degree Indian blood and is recognized as an Indian by a tribe and/or the United States. No single federal or tribal criterion establishes a person’s identity as an Indian. Government agencies use differing criteria to determine eligibility for programs and services. Tribes also have varying eligibility criteria for membership. It is important to understand the difference between the ethnological term “Indian” and the political/legal term “Indian.” The protections and services provided by the United States for tribal members flow not from an individual’s status as a
