Sentence examples for blood quantum from inspiring English sources
What is it?" Barnes: "It's blood quantum, and mine is seven thirty-secondths".
Ingraham: "What's your lineage?" Barnes: "My blood quantum is — " Ingraham, laughing: "'Quantum'Quantum
Blood quantum, and sometimes lineal descent, was a handy way of solving that problem.
Blood quantum has always been about "the stuff," and it has always been about exclusion.
After Congress passed the Indian Reorganization Act in 1934, effectively ending the allotment of land, the provisions of blood quantum remained ingrained in Indian communities.
We are bound by much more than phenotype or blood quantum; we share a language, history, religion, foods, the bonds of family.
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"There's actually lots of non-blood quantum tribes who have tribal members with such low identifiable Indian blood in the 1/500 to 1/1000th range," Billy Keene, who is an enrolled member of the Osage Nation and also has Cherokee heritage, told me.
Most tribes do this with blood-quantum laws.
At that point they began to define Indian as being someone who was demonstrably and documentably of at least one-quarter by quantum blood indigenous in a given group.
Examples that have been given in the regulations for minimal risk and burden are measuring, weighing, and the drawing additional a minimal quantum of blood by an already existing venous access.
