I knew that Bob Barker grew up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, fairly close to my grandparent's ranch. I knew he was part American Indian, but didn't realize that he was 1/8 until I just saw this on Wikipedia. (Wikipedia says 1/8, record says 3/8) There are benefits and privileges of being a member of a tribe, depending on the tribe and percentage of Indian ancestry. They are each different and like all government organizations, can be good or not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_BarkerEarly life
Recorded as Robert Barker in the Indian Census Roll, 1930
Barker spent most of his youth on the
Rosebud Indian Reservation in
Mission, South Dakota. The U.S. Indian Census Rolls, 1885–1940, list Barker as an enrolled member of the
Sioux tribe.
[2] His mother, Matilda ("Tillie") Valandra (
née Matilda Kent Tarleton), was a school teacher; his father, Byron John Barker, was the foreman on the electrical high line through the state of Washington. As Barker's father was one-quarter
Sioux,
[3] and his mother non-Native, Barker was one-eighth Sioux.
[4] Barker attended the grade school on the Rosebud Reservation where his mother was a teacher.
[3] He once said, "I've always bragged about being part Indian, because they are a people to be proud of. And the Sioux were the greatest warriors of them all."
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