Native Americans/American Indians: What do you think of Census 2010?

well I'm actually one of those hispanic/latino people (don't really like the label), anyways me and my family actually decided not mark down american indian/alaskan because it would seem a bit disrespectful. We were also under the impression that it only applied to those of the U.S region NOT mexico and the rest of central * south america. It might suck for you guys, but maybe people will finally understand what "hispanics/latinos" are. I highly doubt this will go unnoticed and it actually might help you guys out (MAYBE). So what ended up doing is marking the hispanic label/mexican and inputting the term "mestizo".

Not long ago I came across a web page cautioning Native Americans not to list any other race on the census. The information stated Native Americans can not claim any other heritage. If they do they would not be counted as Native Americans and that would effect program funding.

I know that in previous censuses that if other ethnic groups claim Native American, they are not counted in Native American statistics. The census data at the following link shows :

White + Native American 0.4%

Black + Native American 0.1%

Native American + some other race (93,842) 0.0%

The races are isolated by “Not Hispanic or Latino” but the Native American + another race is 0.

This data made me think that the caution may well be a valid one.

U.S. Census Bureau

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/QTTable?_bm=y...

.

To the contrary, the 2010 census has finally defined Hispanic as an ethnicity, and recognized that the Hispanic identity is made up of different races and nationalities. If someone considers themselves both Hispanic and a native American, they have to be able to identify what tribe/nation they belong to, a task not easily accomplished by someone who may have some biological aboriginal ancestry, but has no social or cultural ties to a native American nation.

In the census 2000, they counted Latino American Indians as Native American population. They had third largest group. Most Amerindian Latino won't mark down American Indian, for reason I don't want to explain. Anyways, It's asking for race, not culture...

In the Census, American Indians are defined as the Indigenous people of North, Central, and South America. I'm a Central American Amerindian. I marked down American Indian, and wrote down the specific ethnic group/tribe I come from.

i would stay stick with what comes natural the big things that are important to us native people that being the things that are still keeping our people down. e.g. health care on the rez, health care in general, political issues that still come up today, the past military contributions we have given but are never given credit for and the elders that still teach us younguns how things should be. another thing Boris your an idiot you should not have even answered the question at all if you couldn't read the disclaimer at the end and follow it like any self respecting individual would have. Oh Yeah I'm a listener of the show and have been on there with crazy and she does one hell of a job with what she does keep in up Girl.

Why should it even bother you? You should be worried about your own tribe's population and the people trying to claim membership.

You don't see African Americans worrying that the black population will rise because of the Afro Latinos and African Immigrants checking black. Or white Americans getting upset when European Immigrants check white. Just worry about the population of your tribe! Many of the U.S Indians are mixed with European or African anyway. It's not like the Hispanic Indians are going to claim your tribe or anything, white people do that. So what if people think the Indian's population is higher or not. You guys are cousins and Europeans have screwed both you guys over. Stop whining about stuff like this. Do you want to feel special?

And don't worry, not many Latinos will be checking American Indian. It's the opposite in Latin American. It's not cool to be an Indian. They find it offensive. The ones checking Indian probably can relate to the suffering of your people.

To belong to any original tribe of the u.s you have to be enrolled that is is a process decided by the tribal government you have to prove a direct immediate ancestry by family

Personally, I'm getting sick of everyone, EVERYONE, in this section saying, I am part Native American, I'm mixed with Native American, my great great (like 5 more great) grandparents were Native American.....so darn sick of this. Is it so bad just to be white and stay that way? Whats the point in trying to claim that 1 drop of Native blood, seriously? If they get a nosebleed, oops, there goes that little drop of Native.......Its not right, new-agers and wanna-be's are killing me, I'm so glad they can't do anything but "claim" Native, because of our enrollment offices, they can never be real Natives, my Tribe has a 1/2 degree requirement, so not just anyone can say they are part of the Oglala Nation. I don't see how this "trend" came to be, but I think all Natives are tired of hearing this "I'm part Native" thing.

Worse yet, its not going to 25% is pureblood, its going to be made up of those 1/50505000 types!

All over, my Grandmother was part cherokee, should I put I'm Native on the census?

No, they shouldn't

i believe you should be given your own nation where you can grow a large population.