text: You need to prove your genealogy back to a person who is on the final rolls of the tribe.\n\nYou 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. \n\nBefore 1900 or so, there were very few birth certificates kept. They were not required. You can get baptismal records or census records instead.\n\nYou 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.\n\nWith 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.