Native American Tribe

Determining who is and isn't a member of a tribe, or Native American, can be complicated, and the answers don’t always come in a simple "yes" or "no." Part of the reason such determinations can be controversial is because tribes' own rules for establishing membership can vary widely. And many tribes use parentage as a means of defining membership. Known as "blood quantum," the practice defines tribal membership according to the degree of "pure blood" belonging to that tribe.
About 10 to 90 million Native Americans use to inhabit America when the Europeans had arrived. They apparently had live for decades before the whites finally arrived. The name “Indian” was given them by Christopher Columbus who mistakenly believed he had landed in the