I'm Tlingit, a Native Alaskan tribe. I've been involved with my tribe since birth, it's important to me. However, my mother is German, which means that I have brown hair not black. I'm worried about this because of so many people claim the be native because of some distant relative but are so far removed from our culture and history. I don't want to make an ad-com think that I'm one of those people, and I'd rather not apply underrepresented then to have them think of me as a fraud... do you think that I might be seen that way? what should I do? I'm not applying for another good while (2013), i'd still like some input though on what you think about my situation.
(In summary on paper it's easy to see that I'm Tlingit, blood quantum card, enrollment history, things like that, even stock in my native company, but I don't look the part, when they see me in person are adcoms going to be reeling back because of this?)