I am Cherokee and have a CDIB card and am a citizen of the Cherokee Nation in OK. My ancestors that are listed on the Dawes all have varying degrees of blood quantum, siblings with the same parents have different blood degrees. I was always told by my grandparents and great grandmother that most were afraid to say they were more Cherokee than they really were because if you were more than a 1/4 the government would assign a white overseer of your allotment. My blood line is fairly easy to trace since I am a descendant of Nancy Ward on my grandfather's side and Major John Downing on my grandmother's side there was a lot of documentation . I also see differences in blood degree on the 1900 census vs the Dawes roll in what my ancestors listed. I think that makes no difference in how that reflected in their Cherokee pride. We have to remember that times were different back then most were just trying to survive. My ancestors started out wealthy and ended up poor my great grandmother lost her husband and 6 children from sickness and accidents and on both sides of my family they had houses that burned down. I think it has taken all the way up to my generation to catch up, my sister's and I are the first to own houses and be able to keep up with the Jones's. Robin Smith