This should be a great website for that. You can plug into and make a family tree and search ancestors generations and generations deep. I found out that some of my ancestors are from England! When I thought that I was just a plain white man here in Utah! lol
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www.ancestry.com

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Unfortunately, the way to do this isn't online yet. However, off line, you can contact the state archives of MN and ask for assistance. Usually, the archivist will ask you to fill out a form. You should start your search know which tribe she was part of, then the archivist and you can search the birth records from that tribe for 1903.

With Native American people, using state sources rather than local anglo-history sources is generally more fruitful. The online searches tend to be very anglo-centric with nearly no American Indian history because keeping detailed records wasn't a priority.
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I am biracial. Anglo and American Indian and the family history researcher.

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I find this website to be more comprehensive than ancestry.com
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http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp

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Do you know who her parents are?
If you do, you need to find their birth certificates and the certificates of their parents, and just keep repeating the process and going back until you find your answer.
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Was/Is she Indian? If so what Tribe? If you're grandmother is Indian or part Indian...so are you...unless you were adopted!
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That last name is very common in early Indiana, where most of the East Coast nations ended up before they were forced west. The Fort Wayne Library has one of the best genealogy collections in the country, so you might want to check there as well as starting in her county and finding her birth certificate.
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Through DNA perhaps.
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HERE ARE SOME GENERAL SUGGESTIONS----------

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Has your family been in a certain area for a certain length of time? Were they in that area when the native people occupied that area? Is your surname found among those people? Do this by means of genealogy.
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Many Indian people had a traditional name but also a Christian name that was given to them. So if you go through the records looking for an Indian name such as Kill buck or White eyes, more than likely it would be listed under a name such as Smith or Jones.
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Among the surviving Indian communities you may find an individual recorded as Indian but more than likely you'll find them recorded as free people of color, mulatto, mestizo,or metis. A lot of the native people that were baptized were recorded as white.
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Names of surviving communities you may run across will have names like Little Texas Community ,NC; The Cuban Community ,VA; Person County Indians, NC; , Black Fork, Oh; Polk Patch, Oh; Kilvert Oh,Chestnut Ridge Community, WV; and Cutler Oh. (Names through history you may run across that were often considered derogatory would be West Virginia Guineas, and Mullengoins.)
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There are federally recognized tribes, state recognized tribes, and numerous surviving Indian communities throughout the Eastern United States.
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Many tribal rolls have been published and can be accessed through the internet. Type in the name of the tribe, dash, then rolls (Example: Cherokee-rolls.) If you suspect that one of your ancestors is found among a certain tribe, contact the tribal enrollment office and they can usually do a name search for a nominal fee. ($25+)
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Remember that some tribes enroll strictly through the mother's side and some tribes enroll strictly through the father's side. Blood quantum ties in with enrollment. Some require that you be half and some just require a decendency from someone on the rolls.
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