The United States Office of Indian Education is requesting that all children who are served in the Indian Education Program prove their Indian ancestry with a roll number or Certificate Degree of Indian Blood (CDIB) card. This practice is discriminatory because (1) the Native American is the only ethnic group in the United States that must prove its ethnic background to participate in an education program at a public school; (2) ancestors of many Native Americans of the Five Tribes of Oklahoma were not part of the Dawes Commission enrollment (closed in 1906); (3) in 1924, the United States government made all Indians American citizens; and (4) there is no provision for the Native American who has been adopted. Most Oklahoma Indian families do not have the time, money, energy, and/or expertise to complete the complicated process of securing the CDIB card for their children to participate in an Indian Education Program at school that provides tutoring in the basic subjects. Meanwhile, an estimated one-third of Oklahoma children currently recognized as Native Americans do not have roll numbers or CDIB cards. Tribal agencies do not have the manpower or finances to provide applicants with the proper documentation. Problems of securing numbers/cards are even greater for urban Indians who do not know the system. (NEC)