Kallea's right. There hasn't been much to the "benefits" for a long, long time.

My daughter's paternal grandmother is on the Dawes rolls. We don't know, for sure, if she was 100% or 50% Cherokee, but we do know she was Cherokee. She and her offspring never received anything. Of course, they chose not to live on the Reservation, too, though she was born there. She also never said much about her heritage. We all wished'd she had.