What Percentage Indian Do You Have to Be in Order to Be a Member of a Tribe or Nation?

Every tribe has its own membership criteria; some go on blood quantum, others on descent, but whatever the criteria it is the tribe’s enrollment office that has final say on whether a person may be a member.

Ancestory and who I am

I decided to find out about my ancestry. Good lord what I found out was amazing: Mothers side: Algonquian Indians and Holy Roman empire   My mother's geneology goes way back to 500, really interesting

BBC News - How an Ethiopian slave became a South African teacher

When Neville Alexander used to visit his maternal grandmother Bisho Jarsa as a boy, he never suspected the extraordinary story of how she had come from Ethiopia to the South African city of Port Elizabeth.

World's Oldest Optical Illusion Found?

Long before the famous duck-rabbit illusion (seen at right), prehistoric artists were creating mind-bending double images of their own, according to a new paper presented earlier this year at an international convention on rock art research.

Barack Obama related to Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh and George W. Bush, ancestory website claims

Guess who's coming to the family reunion? It wasn't that long ago that it was discovered that President Obama was related to Vice President Dick Cheney. Late-night talk-show hosts had a field day in their monologues, and even the politicians joked about it.