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The Great Vanishing Act
Blood Quantum and the Future of Native Nations
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The Great Vanishing Act
Blood Quantum and the Future of Native Nations
About this book
The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 was the US government's attempt to define who "Indians" were. Among the criteria the act set was a blood quantum, which declared that "Indians" were "all other persons of one-half or more Indian blood". Today, many tribes wrestle with the legacy of blood quantum and "Indian" identity, as they work to manage tribal enrollment and social services. As the bloodlines grow increasingly diluted, within a few generation, recognized tribes might legally disappear.
Through essays, personal stories, case studies, satire, and poetry, The Great Vanishing Act brings together writers from around the world to explore the biological and cultural metaphor of blood quantum, the most critical issue facing Indigenous populations in the twenty-first century.
Through essays, personal stories, case studies, satire, and poetry, The Great Vanishing Act brings together writers from around the world to explore the biological and cultural metaphor of blood quantum, the most critical issue facing Indigenous populations in the twenty-first century.
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Table of contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Cultural Metaphor
- Love in the Time of Blood Quantum
- It’s in the Blood, and in the Earth – Haudenosaunee Descent and Identity
- Good Guidance
- Walking in Two Worlds: the Native American College Experience
- Trickster Teaches the Prairie Dogs How to Disenroll Their Members
- A Fraction of Love
- Bloodflow
- Decolonizing History
- Vampire Policy is Bleeding Us Dry – Blood Quantums, Begone!
- Bleeding Out: Histories and Legacies of “Indian Blood”
- Decolonizing Colonial Constructions of Indigenous Identity: A Conversation Between Debra Harry and Leonie Pihama
- Race and Sovereignty
- Decolonizing Biology and Demography
- Twentieth Century Tribal Blood Politics: Policy, Place, and Descent
- Who Counts? Indians and the U.S. Census
- Ndn DNA
- (Re)building the Lahui (Hawaiian Nation)
- Policy, Law, and Nation Building
- “Making Ourselves Whole with Words: A Short History of White Earth Anishinaabeg Tribal Citizenship Criteria
- Blood Quantum: The Mathematics of Ethnocide
- What Can Tribal Child Welfare Policy Teach Us About Tribal Citizenship?
- Blood Quantum: Fractionated Land, Fractionated People
- Reconsidering Blood Quantum Criteria for the Expansion of Tribal Jurisdiction
- Blood, Identity, and the Ainu Society in Contemporary Japan
- Where To Go From Here? Moving Forward
- From Tribal Members to Native Nation Citizens
- We Chose This, Now What?What Comes After Blood Quantum?
- Applying Indigenous Values to Contemporary Tribal Citizenship:Challenge and Opportunity
- Contributor Biographies
- About the Editors