Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In order to become a federally recognized, tribes must meet certain requirements. The Bureau of Indian affairs defines a federally recognized tribe as an American Indian or Alaska Native tribal entity that is recognized having a government-to-government relationship with the United States, with the responsibilities, powers, limitations, and obligations attached to that designation, and is ...
A Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood or Certificate of Degree of Alaska Native Blood (both abbreviated CDIB) is an official U.S. document that certifies an individual possesses a specific fraction of Native American ancestry of a federally recognized Indian tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, or community. [1]
Blood quantum laws or Indian blood laws are laws that define Native Americans in the United States status by fractions of Native American ancestry. These laws were enacted by the federal government and state governments as a way to establish legally defined racial population groups .
Certified Degree of Indian Blood Card issued by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, issued to Morris Phillip Konstantin (Phil Konstantin) on November 19, 1996. It lists him as 3/16th Cherokee Indian by blood (some personal information was burred out). Certificate of Indian Status (INAC) card; Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood
Under the United States Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 (IACA), [13] members of state-recognized tribes may exhibit as identified "Native American" or "American Indian" artists. In addition to citizens of federally recognized tribes and tribally designated artisans, IACA says that members of "any Indian group that has been formally ...
Alaska Native dancers at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks Art Museum, 2006 Caddo members of the Caddo Cultural Club, Binger, Oklahoma, 2008. Native American identity in the United States is a community identity, determined by the tribal nation the individual or group belongs to.
[16]: 121 Citizenship was granted in a piecemeal fashion before the Act, which was the first more inclusive method of granting Native American citizenship. Even Native Americans who were granted citizenship rights under the 1924 Act may not have had full citizenship and suffrage rights until 1948 because the right to vote was governed by state law.
Yamassee Native American Association of Nations, [69] Van Nuys, CA; Yaqui Nation of Southern California, Thousand Palms, CA [70] Yaquis of Southern California, Borrego Springs, CA, [71] Yokayo Tribe of Indians. [32] Letter of Intent to Petition 03/09/1987. [27] Certified letter returned by P.O. 10/1997 [26] [30] Yosemite Mono Lake Paiute Indian ...