My girlfriend is Full Blood Native American?

So she is adopted, you don't wish to know about records available which covers genealogy, you do't want to have a DNA test done, which is genetics............you make a statement that ending in a question mark(which doesn't make it a question)

"Cree and Aleut from Alberta Canada. and I would like to know how to find her nation." Look on a map for Alberta Canada............and as you are not interested in records, which a far as I know are the only way to PROVE what you wish to find out, then I hope you can make up your mind which you think could be her 'nation'.............so I will not add information as you are asking people not to give you...........if however you think that records may help you in our quest to find out, then I suggest you will need to add this to your question and possibly someone can/will help you.......as this is the genealogy category and records are what we look at to find information out like this........................good luck in your search

I would try Yahoo Groups or Face Book, or contact the tribal office. Having been a Genealogical researcher 35+ years and work with a significant number of Cherokee and Crow families, I have found in the US that contacting the tribal council offices is a place to start. Your biggest problem is the adoption (But you already know that). In the US the tribe plays a significant in the adoptions of Native American and they maintain records of the children placed in adoption. Additionally seldom is a "full blooded" child or even on that is more that 1/4 places in a non-Native American adoption if the tribe can prevent it.

DNA testing would be useless as it would only verify that she is Native American but not the tribe. Although the Aleut's have some really interesting markers. She might try the Sorenson Data Base site for information on a new type of DNA testing.

I found a very interesting site by typing Native American tribes of Alberta into the search. There was a list of Tribal offices and also an article on proving Native American connection. If she is at a roadblock she might want to read that information. As you said none relatives had difficulty doing the research for someone else, so she will have to be actively involved in the search. You might also contact the local Genealogical Society, Family History Center, or local library the search for Native American ancestry has become very popular recently and so with more people looking into that ancestry, more societies and libraries are becoming interested in that research.

Good Luck

nicely, once you locate out enable me understand because I had to artwork 2 finished time jobs to pay for my personal guidance. There aren't any fractions to my blood. I were given a small scholarship, yet contained in the traditional way: I EARNED IT with suggestions from getting a suitable score on my SAT's and being the salutatorian of my type. Even that in easy words paid for the first 2 years. I nonetheless had to pay for my books, and if I so chosen to proceed to exist campus, my room and board. The very last 4 years, I had to pay for each little thing myself. And sure, which could be six years finished, i'm an ACNP - one bypass faraway from being a wellbeing care service - which may take yet another 3 to 6 years relying on what distinctiveness i go with to adhere to (and that i intend to adhere to with the aid of). So when you're a million/8, no longer affiliated with any u . s . a ., no longer enrolled, and characteristic no ties on your custom or historic previous, and nonetheless get a loose vacation only for claiming to have "some" community blood, please, please enable me understand how.

Since you posted in New Zealand, check this site:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori

I hate to disappoint you, but if she was adopted

and you do not want to search records

or opt for DNA testing,

As we say in America: you are up a creek without a paddle.

So, be realistic and begin a real search. Try this: http://www.nanations.com/canada/alberta.htm

Aleuts were natives of Alaska: http://www.angelfire.com/realm/shades/nativeameric...

And remember: Nothing worthwhile is easy; if you don't struggle, it isn't worth it !

You are way too young to understand: I was not born in a hosptal. There was not a doctor; not even a midwife. In winter a water bucket would freeze 3' away from the stove; cooking meant thawing out the water bucket to fill the tea ettle to heat it to pour down the pump opening so one could pump and get water to cook, wash, etc. The toilet was "the little house out back of the big house" brought to you by Sears & Roebuck and Monkey Wards. I was in 6th or 7th grade before my Mom ever had a birth certificate...She was in her mid-50s, and for her to try to find someone who remembered her being born was a real challenge.

So, lay off the "it is not as simple as you non natives think." bit. My Grandfather rode with Red Cloud. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Cloud

If you have her birth record, then you should have the names of her biological parents. Not sure about Canadian rules, but in the US they would have been listed on the tribal roll for that tribe. So I would start by checking the tribal rolls for the Cree and Aleut nations. If her biological parents aren't listed on those, then it might be necessary to do a bit of genological research for the names of grandparents. Then look for those on tribal rolls.

I would try to contact the Bureau Of Indian Affairs ,the website for The Bureau Indian Affairs in USA is

http://www.bia.gov/

and the one in Canada is Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/index-eng.asp

Hopefully someone from one of these offices could and should be able to point you in the right direction. Good Luck