In Search of Blackfeet Identity
Webber, Susan A
The Native American is facing mathematical genocide. The extinction of a race of people is not coming with bloody atrocities or war but with a simple mathematical fraction. Most tribes will experience the end of federal recognition within one generation, when the last enrollable Indian child will be born. The clock is ticking.
In Indian Country, the impact of blood quantum has been contentious, dehumanizing and polarizing. One-quarter Indian b...