General Discussion

It's been a while since I looked into it. I believe she was born on the Pine Ridge Reservation - but records don't connect because adoption wiped out the original birth certificate and replacing it with the one with my parents' names. We have more than is usual because of the father's social security benefits, as well as an aunt who worked with the adoption agency who could find some sealed records. I don't know about the older siblings. My guess is not, since most of them have cut off contact with their biological mother's consent. There are ways to establish descendance (e.g. by other relatives), but not as long as the mother is alive.