...I was actually born and raised in Oklahoma. My father is full-blooded Chippewa, born on a reservation in North Dakota and immediately adopted by a nice Irish family. My mother is actually 1/8 Cherokee. So that makes me a little over half Native American, all added up, doesn't it?
Yet I still can't take advantage of the government's benefits. Neither can my father (who is full Chippewa) nor I nor any of my half siblings fathered by him who desperately need the aid can file for the program. They can't release the records of his mother or anything, although she's been long dead, because of adoption laws. And we can't get it without it.
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This subject always angries me up!
Date: 2005-10-11 11:26 am (UTC)Yet I still can't take advantage of the government's benefits. Neither can my father (who is full Chippewa) nor I nor any of my half siblings fathered by him who desperately need the aid can file for the program. They can't release the records of his mother or anything, although she's been long dead, because of adoption laws. And we can't get it without it.
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