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I was especially floored by their comparison of how blood quantum and the one-drop rule functioned historically.
Blood quantum was used to reduce the number of Native people and exclude them from land and resources. The one-drop rule was used to grow the number of enslaved people categorized as Black in order to have more bodies to work that same land.
So both were invented racial categories that essentially worked together to further colonialism and capitalism on this continent.
Sharing a new-to-me podcast called All My Relations! I read a lot of posts on Native Twitter this month about blood quantum and went looking for more information.
Matika Wilbur, Adrienne Keene and guests taught me a lot in this episode about enrollment, ways of belonging, and made me think about how they bear on #ICWA
https://www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/podcast/episode/49fcb76f/beyond-blood-quantum
Anton Newcombe