Affiliate Marketing Secrets

I’ve recently found out (according to my father) that I’m 1/16th Cherokee, which, according to what I’ve read, is supposed to be a qualifying amount to be registered with the EBC.
I’ve known pretty much all my life that I was some degree of Cherokee, and I knew that it had to be not too far off because I show a lot of the features (dark hair and eyes, facial structure, etc). I’ve had people ask me if I was Cherokee and how much without me mentioning it, so I finally decided to ask how close it was.
Now that I know that it’s close enough, I was wondering what steps you have to take to actually become part of a tribe. I’m not looking for the benefits or anything (to be honest, I’m not even sure if there even are “benefits” or what those benefits would be), I just really like the culture and the history and think that it would be an awesome privilege to be affiliated with them.
Do you think I’m taking too much of a leap, here? I wouldn’t want to try anything that would be disrespectful toward them. If not, I’d really like to know how I could actually do something about joining.

Specifically, this applies to a tribal member who owes money to a landlord. The tribal member receives monthly per-capita payments from the tribe as well as monthly welfare payments from the tribe. Can either of these regular payments be garnished by the landlord creditor for monies owed? The landlord is not tribe-affiliated.

i’m ethiopian and i am not mixed with anything, ok. I am 100% black and nothing else. the arabs never intermixed with us because it is against our tribes to intermix with arabs or anyone who doesn’t belong to our tribe and it is against the arabs to intermix with anyone who isnt of their race.Even the ones who did intermixed with arabs make up less than 1% of ethiopia and are not affiliated with any tribes because this is forbidden within many tribes in ethiopia.so why do people keep saying this and trying to tell me what race i am when i am clearly aware of what i am ?