The most hilarious thing about Kingpoleon's statement is there are actually many Reservations that are majority white, and some that are basically Reservations In Name Only.
Yeah, there are times ive seen interviews with "Indians" with names like James Sawczynski, Carl Schneider, and Patrick O'Connell. Isnt it you can call yourself an Indian and join a tribe if you have like 1% indian blood?
You can have a name like that and still be mostly Native ancestry. Just one European paternal line.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs says you are Native if you have at least 1/4 Native ancestry (which could be one grandparent, two separate great-grandparents, etc.). Different tribes have different rules on ancestry for membership.
Lots of Native Americans adopted European surnames in the period around 1870-1950 or so, too. Not hard-to-spell Polish names, but a lot of generic English/Irish/German-type names.
