“If an Asian person says I’m Japanese, nobody asks him to prove it,” Yancey says. “If I said I was Puerto Rican nobody would say: ‘Oh, really? Then where did you grow up?’ If you say you’re white, people won’t ask for your white man’s card. The only ethnicity that’s required to have an identification card is Native American. I never confirm or deny any tribal membership because it is not relevant. I don’t get into blood quantum, either, because that’s a colonial mindset. I’ve never looked into my blood quantum, so I don’t know what it [would tell]. I have always been a Chiricahua Apache, and the only reason I know that is because that’s what my family told me. Your grandmother tells you something, you’re going to believe it.”