text: how do i prove that i i'm one third indian,and i'm i in titled to payments from our government? i here that if you can prove that you have a certain percentage of indian blood that you can get money that is owed to the /decents of certain indian tribes you need to prove your genealogy back to a person who is on the final rolls of the tribe.  you need to get your birth certificate, then your parents' birth certificates, then your grand-parents', and so on until you get back to your tribal member ancestor.   before 1900 or so, there were very few birth certificates kept. they were not required. you can get baptismal records or census records instead.  you can get both census records, and all of the final tribal rolls at the national archives and records administration (nara) go to www.nara.gov for info.  with all of this, you are now eligible to join the tribe. you will need to write to them and request to be enrolled. i suppose that gets you all of the benefits of tribal membership, but you aren't owed any money.