{"id":44828,"date":"2015-12-27T23:43:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T23:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44828"},"modified":"2016-02-08T01:16:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T01:16:51","slug":"he-has-settled-instead-on-an-expansive-evolving-notion-of-belonging-that-takes-into-account-lineage-without-precise-blood-calculations-or-federal-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44828","title":{"rendered":"He has settled instead on an expansive, evolving notion of \u201cbelonging\u201d that takes into account lineage without precise blood calculations or federal documents."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.galandabroadman.com\/profiles\/galanda\/\" target=\"_blank\">[Gabriel] Galanda\u2019s<\/a> own ancestors were Native American, Scandinavian, Portuguese and Austrian \u2014 a mixed heritage that caused him to question his identity during his formative years.<\/p>\n<p>But he says he kept remembering his grandma, born on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Round_Valley_Indian_Tribes_of_the_Round_Valley_Reservation\" target=\"_blank\">California\u2019s Round Valley Indian Tribes reservation<\/a>, putting him on her knee and saying, in her smoky, gravelly voice, \u201cYou\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nomlaki_people\" target=\"_blank\">Nomlaki<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maidu\" target=\"_blank\">Concow<\/a>. Don\u2019t ever forget it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore I undertook this work,\u201d Galanda says, \u201cI was really caught up in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blood_quantum_laws\" target=\"_blank\">blood quantum<\/a>.\u201d Now, he says, \u201cI don\u2019t really care.\u201d He has settled instead on an expansive, evolving notion of \u201cbelonging\u201d that takes into account lineage without precise blood calculations or federal documents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NinaShapiro\" target=\"_blank\">Nina Shapiro<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44819\" target=\"_blank\">Native lawyer takes on tribes that kick members out<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Seattle Times<\/em>, December 19, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/northwest\/native-lawyer-takes-on-tribes-that-kick-members-out\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/northwest\/native-lawyer-takes-on-tribes-that-kick-members-out\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Gabriel] Galanda\u2019s own ancestors were Native American, Scandinavian, Portuguese and Austrian \u2014 a mixed heritage that caused him to question his identity during his formative years. But he says he kept remembering his grandma, born on California\u2019s Round Valley Indian Tribes reservation, putting him on her knee and saying, in her smoky, gravelly voice, \u201cYou\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[22427,20413,9872,5408],"class_list":["post-44828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-gabriel-galanda","tag-nina-shapiro","tag-seattle-times","tag-the-seattle-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44828","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=44828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45573,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44828\/revisions\/45573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}