One more thought on this..your last statement, " I am able to prove all this with no trouble". If you have a CDIB the information on that card proves that you are a descendent of a person or persons that that was interviewed by the Dawes Commission and enrolled. You have proved your degree from that recorded information. What ever was recorded. I can easily make the same statement. James Brown ----- Original Message ----- From: "J W Kite Jr" <obengekite@juno.com> To: <indian-territory-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 12:04 AM Subject: Re: [INDIAN-TERRITORY-ROOTS] Natural Archives closure > Carla B.The info sent you by Lathel is not true as to Degree of Blood. > Each Cherokee at least knew his degree of blood. There was no guessing by > the person doing the enrollment. You people need to do a lot of reading > and studying. If a person had two Tribes mixed, they had to choose one > over the other in order to be enrolled. The Rolls were started a long > time ago and certainly are not artifical statements. I'm sorry but these > statements made by Lathel are the most ridiculous I've ever heard. I am > a Cherokee and that is because my Dad was A cHEROKEE and so was my Mom > . . I am able to prove all this with no trouble. Oleta E. Benge KITE > On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 19:19:07 -0400 "Lathel Duffield" <Lathel_Duf@msn.com> > writes: >> Carla The degree of Indian Blood is an artificial statement based >> on a a series of past documents about how much "Indian blood" a >> person possesses. In earlier times, the blood amount was calculated >> (guessed) by the person conducting the census. There were no >> documents or other records that "proved" the amount of Indian blood >> and individual possessed. For government purposes, it is not the >> specific degree of Indian blood by tribe that can be attributed to a >> person -- it is the total amount of Indian blood. Therefore, like >> your questions asks, the Choctaw blood and the Cherokee blood would >> be added together for Federal Government purposes. However, for >> membership in the tribe, unless the tribal constitution specifically >> allowed for a combination of blood, then the person would have to >> meet the tribe's criteria. That requirement would have nothing to >> do with the Federal government. Lathel >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > INDIAN-TERRITORY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:INDIAN-TERRITORY-ROOTS > -request@rootsweb.com> >> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and >> the body of the message >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> INDIAN-TERRITORY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word >> 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the >> message >> >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INDIAN-TERRITORY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >