Yes, you have to have proof.
For me it wasn't hard, my great grandparents were on the original Indian registration in Oklahoma due to the land grab.
For Amy and her family, they actually had government paying her great grandparents for mineral rights to their land.
And even if you do prove you have Native blood, that doesn't mean shit for getting money. Only a very, very small percentage of people get any money, and that's generally the leaders of the region.
It isn't like "Yo, you're Native, here is a check"
As far as the ICWA goes, it's a big slap in the face of Natives. It's pulling us back to when children were stripped from their family and given white names, not allowed to practice anything to do with their heritage and forced to be 'white' and not savage.
On top of that, the Dakota politicians just made a ruling stating that in order to vote you have to have a physical address, and not a PO Box.
Guess what.. reservations don't have physical addresses, they only have PO Boxes, as designed by the government because they are on sovereign soil and don't get a normal address.
Thus effectively removing most of the natives from being able to vote.
We were the last to be allowed to vote, and now the first to have that right legally stripped away by the assclowns in charge.
