The Great Vanishing Act: Blood Quantum and the Future of Native Nations by Norbert S. Hill Jr., Kathleen Ratteree

The Great Vanishing Act: Blood Quantum and the Future of Native Nations

Norbert S. Hill Jr., Kathleen Ratteree

350 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative slow-paced
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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,...

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