Blood Will Tell: Native Americans and Assimilation Policy
(Part of the New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies Series)
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Blood Will Tell reveals the underlying centrality of "blood" that shaped official ideas about who was eligible to be defined as Indian by the General Allotment Act in the United States. Katherine Ellinghaus traces the idea of blood quantum and how the concept came to dominate Native identity and national status between 1887 and 1934 and how related exclusionary policies functioned to dispossess Native people of their land. The U.S. government's...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0803225431
ISBN13:9780803225435
Release Date:August 2017
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
Length:234 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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