If one is 1/32nd Native American, should they be considered Native American?

[MaxQue]

I would certainly not be so presumptuous as to tell the Potawatomi Tribe who they can and can't consider to be a "real" Indian.

True, but if that's your only ethnic, personal, cultural or family tie to a tribe, give me a break.  If you're involved in tribal life, live on a reservation, know the language, know the culture, etc, then sure.  But, if you have no real personal experience with a tribe, 1/32 ancestry is completely meaningless.

Doesn't most reservations are living in English, through?

[MaxQue]

Atlas forum, your bigotry is showing

legally, morally, and culturally, only the tribe itself has a legitimate say in its membership

but I suppose white man always knows best right?

Perhaps in USA. In Canada, federal government decides and decided than, to be Native, you needed to have a Native father. If you were female and you married a non-Native, you stopped being Native.

Courts recently threw out that nonsense.