{"id":50186,"date":"2017-08-01T20:04:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T20:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50186"},"modified":"2017-08-01T20:05:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T20:05:37","slug":"blood-will-tell-native-americans-and-assimilation-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50186","title":{"rendered":"Blood Will Tell: Native Americans and Assimilation Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blood Will Tell: Native Americans and Assimilation Policy<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University of Nebraska Press<\/a>
\n2017-08-01
\n234 pages
\n5 illustrations, index
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-2543-5<\/p>\n

Katherine Ellinghaus<\/strong><\/a>, Hansen Lectureship in History
\nSchool of Historical and Philosophical Studies
\nUniversity of Melbourne<\/em><\/p>\n

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Blood Will Tell<\/em> reveals the underlying centrality of \u201cblood\u201d that shaped official ideas about who was eligible to be defined as Indian by the General Allotment Act<\/a> in the United States<\/a>. Katherine Ellinghaus traces the idea of blood quantum<\/a> 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\u2019s unspoken assumption at the time was that Natives of mixed descent were undeserving of tribal status and benefits, notwithstanding that Native Americans of mixed descent played crucial roles in the national implementation of allotment policy.<\/p>\n

Ellinghaus explores on-the-ground case studies of Anishinaabeg<\/a>, Arapahos<\/a>, Cherokees<\/a>, Eastern Cherokees<\/a>, Cheyennes<\/a>, Chickasaws<\/a>, Choctaws<\/a>, Creeks<\/a>, Lakotas<\/a>, Lumbees<\/a>, Ojibwes<\/a>, Seminoles<\/a>, and Virginia tribes<\/a>. Documented in these cases, the history of blood quantum as a policy reveals assimilation\u2019s implications and legacy. The role of blood quantum is integral to understanding how Native Americans came to be one of the most disadvantaged groups in the United States, and it remains a significant part of present-day debates about Indian identity and tribal membership. Blood Will Tell<\/em> is an important and timely contribution to current political and scholarly debates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Blood Will Tell” reveals the underlying centrality of \u201cblood\u201d 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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,8,17,3015,20],"tags":[198,335],"class_list":["post-50186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-katherine-ellinghaus","tag-university-of-nebraska-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50186","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=50186"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54713,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50186\/revisions\/54713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}