<p>If I can prove I am part Native American by a small amount, can I claim to be a minority?</p>
<p>Like specifically, how much would you say is qualifying. 1/4? 1/8? 1/16? 1/512?</p>
<p>Are you a member of a tribe?</p>
<p>Most schools ask for proof of Tribal Enrolment. The blood % requirement varies with the specific tribe. </p>
<p>It would seem (by your post) that you really have no connections to a Native American tribe. You're walking on an ethical tightrope. Do you self-identify yourself as Native-American?</p>
<p>You aren't supposed to say you're a minority if you don't identify with that minority...because you don't, doing so would be wrong (and if you went for an interview and were clearly white, you might just get rejected)</p>
<p>I agree. I think that if you are at least 50% than you can count yourself as identifying with that race, but I disagree with the thing "if you obviously look white." I'm half Mexican and half white and some of my siblings look a lot like my mother (who is blonde and blue-eyed) and some of us look a lot like my father (who looks very Hispanic), yet we all identify more with our Hispanic culture than our...Causasian (?) one. So looking like you are Native American may not be a determining factor, but if you don't have close tribal relations than I don't think you can fairly count yourself as Native American. It would be taking a rather dishonest advantage.</p>
<p>I agree with the above poster. I am half cuban, half alabamian (?).My mom looks white, she has dark brown hair, brown eyes and pale skin. I have brown hair and brown eyes. Yet, I do speak Spanish fluently and I identify myself as Cuban and not...white?</p>
<p>I think Native American is a tricky URM because there are different percentages for different tribes. One of my friends is 1/4 Cherokee and she happens to be very close with her tribe and with her grandma (who is Cherokee). I guess it just depends</p>
<p>" I am half cuban, half alabamian (?).My mom looks white, she has dark brown hair, brown eyes and pale skin. I have brown hair and brown eyes. Yet, I do speak Spanish fluently and I identify myself as Cuban and not...white??"</p>
<p>You can be Cuban and white. "Hispanic" is an ethnicity, not a race. Hispanics can be any race.</p>
<p>Hispanic = native Spanish speaker. People from Spain are Hispanic, not white (go figure). </p>
<p>OP, just enroll in a tribe regardless of your race. Then you are Native American and will get into HYPSM.</p>
<p>Yet again: Hispanics can be any race: black, white, Asian, Native American. "Hispanic" means having an ancestral relationship to a Spanish-speaking country. It has nothing to do with a person's skin color.</p>