>Resent-Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 07:18:58 -0700 (PDT) >From: "Jim Morrison, Jr." <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [CHOCTAW-SE] Re: CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-D Digest V00 #346 >I just don't quite see the logic in this. You mean that all a person has to >do is say they are Indian and they WILL BE reconized as such? WHO will >reconize them without proof? > > > > >At 12:47 AM 5/23/00 EDT, you wrote: >>In a message dated 05/22/2000 8:37:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time, >>[email protected] writes: >> >><< Unfortunately, we Natives have to have proof in order to enroll in a >> Federally recognized tribe. It does not mean we are not as good as other >> people, it's just the way things are. >> >> Carol Jean >> >>I understand that we must have proof to enroll. My point is that we don't >>need proof to be Indian. >>