Am I Native enough to join my University association, or am I basically being like Elizabeth Warren?

I'm Canadian. My grandmother is Native, but has always been embarrassed about it. She would cook fry bread (calling it fried bread) but that was it so far as her willingness to discuss her ancestry. We know there was some trauma in her past and she has no communication with her family.My dad looks very strongly native, but lies and says he just works outside a lot. We are from the Prairies, and he has been jumped and targeted for his skin color and tries to pretend it isn't there. Growing up I never saw myself as native (and I'm only 25%, so I have some features, but it's not obvious, however men on the street have said "now that's a good squaw" when I walk by, so it must be visible). My friends' parents wouldn't let my friends come over when they met my dad, my teachers would ask me in private if my dad drinks a lot, and when crossing the border, border agents always took me out of the car to privately ask if he is my real parent. I'm ashamed to say that when growing up, I always dreamed about what it would be like to have a "normal" dad like everyone else does, but that's just from watching too many disney shows.Anyway, in recent years we've come to terms with our ancestry more. I go to college now and my family lives in a small resources extraction town, and the local government is offering a significant amount of money to cover my education, as there are no local native kids going to college, and the money will just be absorbed by the federal government if someone doesn't apply for the funding. They are actually begging me to take the funds as I'm the only eligible person (I qualify as Metis aboriginal here), but I feel like I'm appropriating parts of native culture and pulling a big Elizabeth Warren by accepting.More than that, I've wanted to join the aboriginal society in my college and get to know more of the culture from the bands in the region of the country my grandma is from, but I'm scared of being a white tourist claiming a culture that isn't mine.TLDR; would I be a horrible person for trying to connect with my native ancestry more, considering I'm only 25%? via /r/TooAfraidToAsk https://ift.tt/30TcUGl