{"id":57210,"date":"2019-01-04T19:26:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T19:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57210"},"modified":"2019-01-04T20:33:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T20:33:50","slug":"congress-votes-to-end-blood-quantum-requirement-applies-to-five-tribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57210","title":{"rendered":"Congress votes to end blood quantum requirement, applies to five tribes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfor.com\/2018\/12\/26\/congress-votes-to-end-blood-quantum-requirement-applies-to-five-tribes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Congress votes to end blood quantum requirement, applies to five tribes<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfor.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KFOR-TV<\/a><br \/>\nOklahoma City, Oklahoma<br \/>\n2018-12-26<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/cdn2.trb.tv\/iframe.html?ec=tnbWh4ZzE6D5HLq8DjVTWXgadrODvaLa&amp;pbid=61ad5ff4ba57488ab20328b38b5a6f05&amp;pcode=w1cHE6To2EhAeIt2mx2p9196-TtN\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oklahoma_City\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OKLAHOMA CITY<\/a> &#8212; A bill ending a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blood_quantum_laws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blood quantum<\/a> requirement awaits <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Donald Trump&#8217;s<\/a> signature after it unanimously passed the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_House_of_Representatives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. House<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>HR2606, also known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/115th-congress\/house-bill\/2606\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stigler Act Amendments of 2018<\/a>, was authored by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tom_Cole\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congressman Tom Cole<\/a> (OK-04) and co-sponsored by Congressman <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Markwayne_Mullin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Markwayne Mullin<\/a> (OK-02). The legislation amends a 1947 law and would remove the one-half degree Native American blood quantum restriction for holders of tribal allotment land.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation specifically impacts citizens of five <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oklahoma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oklahoma<\/a> tribes: the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chickasaw_Nation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chickasaw<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cherokee_Nation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cherokee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muscogee_(Creek)_Nation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Muscogee (Creek)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Choctaw_Nation_of_Oklahoma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Choctaw<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seminole_Nation_of_Oklahoma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seminole nations<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire story <a href=\"https:\/\/kfor.com\/2018\/12\/26\/congress-votes-to-end-blood-quantum-requirement-applies-to-five-tribes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OKLAHOMA CITY &#8212; A bill ending a blood quantum requirement awaits President Donald Trump&#8217;s signature after it unanimously passed the U.S. House and Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1467,8,3015,26,20],"tags":[29217,29213,29215,1777,29216,29214],"class_list":["post-57210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-politics","category-usa","tag-hr2606","tag-kfor-tv","tag-markwayne-mullin","tag-oklahoma","tag-stigler-act-amendments-of-2018","tag-tom-cole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57210","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=57210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57218,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57210\/revisions\/57218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}