scholarly journals Blood Quantum

2020 ◽  
pp. vi-vi
Keyword(s):  
Blood Quantum

The Justice to Which We Are Entitled

2018 ◽  
pp. 94-124
Author(s):  
Malinda Maynor Lowery
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Main Part ◽  
Blood Quantum ◽  
State Recognition ◽  
Indian Schools ◽  
Robeson County ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Government ◽  
Name Changes ◽  
Official Recognition

As the lines between “white” and “colored” hardened in North Carolina in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Indians participated in segregation and the institutionalization of race in an attempt to ensure two things: that whites would recognize their “Indianness” and that Indians would retain control of their own institutions. The creation of Indian schools became a main part of the fight for recognition. Indians recognized the game of race and addressed it by consistently trying to move it to an arena where they had power. Picking and choosing tribal names and pursuing federal and state recognition of those names became one way of dealing with this problem. Throughout the twentieth century, the name of the Robeson County Indians changed from “Croatan” to “Cherokee Indians of Robeson County” to “Siouan Indians of the Lumbee River”. The name changes frequently led to conflict within and outside the community. Supporters of Cherokee or Siouan names pursued different paths to recognition. Robeson County Indians had to navigate standards of authenticity set forth by the federal government, such as blood-quantum provisions. Even after some Indians were finally granted official recognition, they were often still denied their full benefits from the government.

Translation of Blood Quantum

1993 ◽  
Vol 39 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Woody
Keyword(s):  
Blood Quantum

3 Descent and Genealogy: The Changing Landscape of Tribal Membership Governance in the United States

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gover Kirsty
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Indian Policy ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Blood Quantum ◽  
Federal Indian Policy ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Indian Blood

In the United States, the modern period of tribal constitutionalism began in the 1930s. This chapter illustrates the ways in which tribes have altered their membership governance to maintain and repair continuity during shifts in federal Indian policy and tribal demography. Tribes are increasingly likely to use lineal descent and blood quantum rules after 1970, in place of apparently ethnically-neutral rules, such as parental enrolment or residence. Tribes also increasingly prefer tribe-specific measures of blood quantum, in contrast to the pan-tribal concept of Indian blood quantum used in federal law and policy. Together these changes suggest that tribes are becoming more ‘genealogical’ in their approach to membership governance, favouring descent rules over racial measures.

Incorporating Inheritance and Complementarity

2021 ◽  
pp. 191-242
Author(s):  
Jessica Bissett Perea
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Blood Quantum ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Business Acumen

This chapter highlights the poetics and politics of Indigenous People’s dense inheritances around the turn of the twenty-first century and how these genealogies can be translated as complementary through sound. It focuses on the musical output of the Anchorage-based “tribal funk” band Pamyua, and how their distinctive sounds engage lived intersections between Blackness and Indigeneity. The author outlines how their business acumen challenges racialized gatekeeping mechanisms of the music industrial complex endemic to “blood quantum” and “one-drop” ideologies, a colonial pairing of what one might call “sound quantum” with earlier discussions of “audible Indigeneity.” The author offers an analysis and musicographic model that seeks to better represent the priorities and processes of Pamyua’s relational and radical soundwork, through which multiple densities are navigated and transformed. Pamyua’s work expands the ways in which we hear Yupiit masks and drumsongs as always already modern, both in Yukological and Eurological understandings of the phrase.

scholarly journals Adoption Constitutionalism: Anishinaabe Citizenship Law at Fort William First Nation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damien Lee
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
First Nation ◽  
Blood Quantum ◽  
Individual Self

This article explores familial jurisdiction over citizenship, using the study of Anishinaabe citizenship practices in the Fort William First Nation, through the lens of adoption stories. The author highlights how families are able to use adoption to regulate citizenship, bringing new citizens into the nation, while also selecting those who do not belong. The familial system of affirmation is different than a Certificate of Indian Registration and requires collective action, rather than individual self-determination. Belonging at Fort William is further argued to not depend solely on blood quantum, Indian status, or band membership but, rather, depends on active community determination and accountability to the community on an on-going basis. Seen this way, adoption narratives reveal a citizenship order that challenges Canada’s claimed jurisdiction to discern who belongs with First Nations.

scholarly journals Where are you From? Reframing Facilitated Admissions Policies in the Faculty of Health Sciences

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle N. Soucy ◽  
Cornelia Wieman
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Medical School Admissions ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Blood Quantum ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Admissions Policies ◽  
Specific Barriers ◽  
Indigenous Learners

Understanding that Indigenous learners can face specific barriers or challenges when pursuing higher education, schools and programs within McMaster’s Faculty of Health Sciences have facilitated admissions streams for Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) applicants. The intent of reframing admissions policies is to provide equitable access while aligning with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action, specifically Number 23. This work explores the development of an Indigenous-determined Facilitated Indigenous Admissions Program (FIAP), a self-identification policy that moves away from the politics of mathematical blood quantum to nationhood, community, and seeing the applicant as whole being. Further, it critiques (for example) medical school admissions as biased, in that they often replicate an elite and narrow segment of society. It also addresses how interpretations of decisions like Daniels v Canada, which speaks to the rights of Métis and non-status Indigenous peoples, are communicated or miscommunicated within emerging population groups in terms of rights and their potential relationship to admissions.

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