- 1). Trace your ancestry and determine what relatives you have on any tribal rolls. You must locate any ancestors that have tribal numbers and be able to prove your connection to them.
- 2). Collect certified copies of necessary documents. If you find one of your parents on a tribal roll, you only need to submit documentation for yourself and your parents. You will need your birth certificate, and birth, death and marriage certificates for your parents, as well as a tribal roll number for one or both of them.
- 3). Gather additional documentation as required. If you cannot show that one or both of your parents had tribal roll numbers, you must gather complete documentation for your grandparents, and if they did not have roll numbers, you must go back another generation, and so forth, until you can prove tribal affiliation.
- 4). Apply to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for a Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood. This document certifies how much Indian blood you have and from what tribe or tribes. Send all the documents you gathered as well as the BIA application to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. If you have made your case, the BIA will issue you a CDIB.
- 5). Contact the tribe that has your ancestors on the rolls. Request information on how to apply to become listed with the tribe. Each tribe is autonomous and has its own rules, and it varies from tribe to tribe as far as who is eligible for enrollment and what the process is to become enrolled. Once you have met their requirements you will be issued a tribal roll number.
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