{"id":20308,"date":"2012-01-31T22:53:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T22:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20308"},"modified":"2012-01-31T22:53:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T22:53:44","slug":"legislation-eradicates-dominican-%e2%80%9cindians%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20308","title":{"rendered":"Legislation eradicates Dominican \u201cIndians\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dominicantoday.com\/dr\/local\/2011\/11\/11\/41602\/Legislation-eradicates-Dominican-Indians\" target=\"_blank\">Legislation eradicates Dominican \u201cIndians\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dominicantoday.com\" target=\"_blank\">Dominican Today<\/a><br \/>\n2011-11-11<\/p>\n<p>Santo Domingo.\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">Mulatto<\/a>, black and white will be the only colors among Dominicans and will be stated thus in the citizens ID cards (cedula), effectively eradicating the nation\u2019s \u201cIndians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill \u201cDominican Republic Electoral Law Reform\u201d states that in the master file of cedulas the color of Dominicans will be established by their ethnic group, and as such only three colors. The Spanish Royal Academy of Language defines ethnic group as \u201ca human community defined by racial affinities.\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOrganization of American States (OAS) and Central Electoral Board (JCE)technicians drafted the legislation to reform Electoral Law 275-97, and will be debated by the JCE prior to being submitted to Congress in the next few days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Although nearly all <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ta%C3%ADno_people\" target=\"_blank\">Ta\u00edno Indians<\/a> perished early during Spanish colonization, the term \u201cIndio\u201d lingered from the many remaining descendants of mixed blood also called mestizos&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dominicantoday.com\/dr\/local\/2011\/11\/11\/41602\/Legislation-eradicates-Dominican-Indians\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation eradicates Dominican \u201cIndians\u201d Dominican Today 2011-11-11 Santo Domingo.\u2014Mulatto, black and white will be the only colors among Dominicans and will be stated thus in the citizens ID cards (cedula), effectively eradicating the nation\u2019s \u201cIndians.\u201d The bill \u201cDominican Republic Electoral Law Reform\u201d states that in the master file of cedulas the color of Dominicans will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,21,1467,8,3015],"tags":[3468,9459],"class_list":["post-20308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-law","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","tag-dominican-republic","tag-dominican-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}