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decolonize-the-left · 1 year

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End blood quantum now

Blood quantum is how much native blood you have in you and it needs to be a certain threshold to qualify you as a tribal member. Blood quantum varies from tribe to tribe.

It means my mom is a tribal member but because my dad is outside of my tribe... I don't have enough tribal blood to enroll. Neither does my daughter. Our "official" indigeneity ended with me.

My dad is still native tho. Just southern native. Others have two parents enrolled in separate tribes and can't enroll in either one despite being Full native because their parents were mixed with other tribes so they don't have enough blood of Any tribe to qualify.

And to what end are they doing this?

Under the treaties the US govt can lay no claim to native land. So how do they fix that? Get rid of the natives, of course.

And since they can't slaughter us in broad daylight anymore they did the next best thing. What the colonial government has ALWAYS done to us and other poc.

Made up a bunch of arbitrary laws to restrain and limit our power and numbers.

And this can't continue. We are the only race who needs to apply to be part of the community we were born into. The only race who needs to prove our blood.

And that's the thing: it's not even based on blood. Racist scientists defined who was a full-blooded native based on things like shoe size, head circumference, and skin pigment.

Not blood. And besides that it wasn't uncommon for outsiders to become part of a tribe!! You didn't need to be native by blood to be native! Blood quantum has made it IMPOSSIBLE for them to qualify and made it impossible for tribes to practice that long time aspect of our culture.

So please share this post. So many people legitimately think natives are extinct and even less are aware that we do more than just sit around drinking all day. Few people have good feelings about us and within that there are a few who actively help. Please be one of those few.

We need support and allies and for our voices to be heard. Please don't let this post just be me screaming into a void. We need people to know what blood quantum is, how archaic and harmful it is, and to help us spread awareness to people who otherwise would ignore us. Use your privilege.

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goryhorroor · 7 months

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day 9 of horror: canadian horror

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fanofspooky · 26 days

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Horror movies of 2019

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thalissateixeira · 13 days

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Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs as JAMES

Blood Quantum (2019)

#Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs #devery jacobs #blood quantum #movieedit #horroredit #blood quantum 2019 #*mine

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avnj0gia · 1 year

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Kiowa Gordon as Lysol in Blood Quantum (2020)

#Kiowa Gordon #Blood Quantum #Lysol #My beloved #Did nothing wrong

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patrocles · 1 year

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I'm not an asshole to impress you. I'm just an asshole

BLOOD QUANTUM (2019) dir. Jeff Barnaby

#blood quantum #blood quantum 2019 #kiowa gordon #filmgif #filmtv #userstream #filmedit #dailyflicks #moviegifs #horrorgifs #doyouevenfilm

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tepkunset · 1 year

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I sincerely appreciate and support the anti-blood quantum movement and Native peoples becoming more accepting of those with mixed ancestry. And I love seeing Natives supporting Natives in learning not to measure our existence using this colonial concept designed to assimilate us. But me calling myself biracial has less to do with my blood quantum and more to do with me identifying with the biracial experience. I have a white mother and a Mi'kmaw father, and that has shaped my life differently than someone who has parents of the same racial/ethnic background. It's granted me both privileges and hardships that are unique to this fact. So while I appreciate the sentiment behind saying I don't need to call myself biracial, that I can just identify as Indigenous if I want to, at least at this point in my life I feel more comfortable acknowledging my mixed ancestry in this way.

#(btw yes you can reblog this if you want to even though it's personal)#(idk maybe you feel the same way - if so high five)#blood quantum

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optimisticslytherin · 1 year

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Yo its wild how people are justifiable calling out the colourism in the casting of Nani, by then trying to imposing the colonisers tool of blood quantum on Sydney and saying her being a 1/4 hawaiian means she isnt hawaiian enough. F*ck off with that shit. Among indigenous peoples, blood quantum was used as a tool to "breed" out the native population, a form of genocide to eradicate and assimilate.

For Maori, it doesnt matter if you are a blonde, blue eyed white girl, if you know your whakapapa, if you know where your people came from, where your land is. Your Maori.

I genuinely believe Sydney should step back from this role and push for a darker skinned Native Hawaiian to take the role, because Nani's existence as a dark skinned Hawaiian with features that are unequivocally native, played an integral part of how she lived and experienced life through the lens of colourism and how that colourism made her life harder. Darker skinned indigenous women are more likely to get there kids taken away by social services, are more likely to have reports made against that by "do good" neighbours, find it harder to get and keep jobs and then add being the single parent of a child and that becomes even harder.

#Nani #Lilo and stitch #live action #blood quantum #colourism

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diasporicstory · 8 months

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What of the children

Counted in eighths and fractions

In a world begging to be whole

Would we be chopped and skewered

And sent back to places

Or would we bind our eighths

And call them whole

#diasporic poetry #filipino #jewish #diaspora #poem #writeblr #community organizing #organize your block #poetry #writing #colonization #blood quantum

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ivygorgon · 4 days

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👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Out with Incest Laws: Reconsider Blood Quantum Laws in Native Reparations

An open letter to State Governors & Legislatures

1 so far! Help us get to 5 signers!

I am writing to express profound concerns about the continued reliance on Blood Quantum Laws, or Indian Blood Laws, in Native Reparations Programs. These laws, established by federal and state governments as far back as 1705, define Native American status based on fractions of Native American ancestry, perpetuating harmful consequences for tribal communities and some, alarmingly, terminating before just 5 generations.

The use of Blood Quantum Laws has led to detrimental effects on Native American families and communities. It has incentivized harmful family planning practices, compelling individuals to marry within close kin networks to maintain "pure bloodlines." This practice not only violates individual autonomy but also jeopardizes genetic diversity and the long-term viability of tribal populations.

Of utmost concern is the declining population within many tribal communities, with some nearing critical thresholds of fewer than 1000 individuals. This situation is further exacerbated by the principles of population biology, particularly the 50/500 rule, which underscores the need for a minimum population of 500 individuals to reduce genetic drift and ensure sustained viability. It is troubling to note that these laws inadvertently encourage cousin marriages, posing additional risks to community health and resilience.

Moreover, Blood Quantum Laws impose an arbitrary expiration date on government-funded reparations and jeopardize the cultural continuity of these communities. By tethering Native American status to ancestry thresholds, these laws undermine the diversity and autonomy of tribal enrollment criteria.

I urge policymakers to urgently reconsider the use of Blood Quantum Laws in Native Reparations Programs and advocate for a more inclusive and sustainable approach to reparations. This approach should prioritize the cultural and social integrity of Native American communities, safeguarding their continued existence and resilience for future generations.

Our villages were razed by colonizers, our ancestors were genocide survivors, and, as ever, our children bear the enduring impacts of historical injustices.

Thank you for considering these critical issues and taking decisive action to address them.

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hewasmadeofthegalaxy · 8 months

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I hate blood quantum for MANY reasons that I won't go into depth about at the moment, but the number one reason I hate it is because those who uphold it tend to backslide into eugenics VERY easily. It's to the point where if you say you support blood quantum, I am on high alert, it's such a giant red flag.

#blood quantum #ndn #honestly there have been so many of my own people telling me i have 'dirty blood' because I'm mixed race and #talking about how me being mixed race brings dishonor on our ancestors #'we have to keep the bloodlines pure!' take a wild guess what you are reminding me of

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decolonize-the-left · 1 year

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"The early twenty-first century has seen increased exploitation of energy resources begetting new pressures on Indigenous lands. Exploitation by the largest corporations, often in collusion with politicians at local, state, and federal levels, and even within some Indigenous governments, could spell a final demise for Indigenous land bases and resources.

Strengthening Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination to prevent that result will take general public outrage and demand, which in turn will require that the general population, those descended from settlers and immigrants, know their history and assume responsibility."

- Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, An Indigenous people's History of the United States (2014)

#native american #colonialism #roxanne dunbar ortiz #an indigenous peoples' History of the United States #ndn #native #indigenous #native sovereignty #blood quantum #treaty rights #lgbt #two spirit #landback #solidarity #capitalism #fascism #acab

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melancholyromance · 1 year

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𝑩𝑳𝑶𝑶𝑫 𝑸𝑼𝑨𝑵𝑻𝑼𝑴 (2019) dir. Jeff Barnaby

#kiowa gordon #blood quantum #michael greyeyes #l.r. gifs #my gifs

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fanofspooky · 1 year

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365 horror movies day 117:

Blood Quantum

“That's why the dead keep comin' back to life. Not because of God. 'Cause this planet we're on is so sick of our shit.”

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alatismeni-theitsa · 2 years

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blood quantum is a phrase that specifically refers to the way in which the American government oppresses, marginalizes, and murders Native Americans. If you're not native then blood quantum doesn't apply to you. ESPECIALLY as a white person. (Greeks are white btw. Just in case you forgot)

"Blood quantum" is an English phrase used whenever anyone wants to "measure" blood "percentage" or "quantity". The world doesn't revolve around the US and its issues (in case you forgot)

Don't come at me with the argument "I am native American" in case you are. I am saddened by any oppression you faced but this doesn't change the fact you still think a phrase applies only to a specific issue and only in the US and nowhere else in the wolrd. Which is still false. You are not except from having a US-centric view on the world. Discussions of blood "percentage" happen all over the world in relation to ethnicity and culture. We have our own problems against blood "purity", and your particular US-centric addition is nowhere near as relavant as you think. Because these particular problems we are talking about don't involve Native Americans. The variations of these discussions and issues globally have many differences which you didn't care enough to examine (because you couldn't fathom nin-USians talking about blood quantum). In fact you seem to know fuck-all about Europe's dynamics of oppression and social problems.

Finally, when non-USians speak English, we'll use English words. What else do you expect us to use?? It's not a slur, it's not a sacred word, it's not a curse word, it's not taboo, and it's not exclusive to one culture or ethnicity.

USians seem to forget the "Greeks are white" when it's convenient for them in media or history or myths or when they call the cops on our barbeques or home celebrations or when they consider our Christianity "demonic" or when they mispronounce our names or when they make fun of our food at school or when they wince at the mention of our "namedays" or when they mock our accents or they ask us if our country has internet or when they think we are filthy pagans because of our names or when they usually tell us "you look too white to be Greek".

Not that you'd know all this because you didn't even take five minutes to see our issues, unlike the rest of the world who is constantly aware of the US' social issues and is upheld to the impossible standard of having to know everything all the time about the imperialistic US who sends their armies to fight where they don't want to :)

(It's good that the world knows about the Native American struggle but I am saying it's sad when Americans almost never spend the same energy on any other country's social issues while assuming everyone else should adhere to their own standards. You exhibited the same attitude here, I am sorry to say)

#blood quantum #quantity #the US didn't invent the words get a grip #and the fact that you think a term used in the US should be used about the native Americans anywhere and not just for...blood is #very telling of your #uscentrism #answered

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12timetraveler · 1 year

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Here to info dump a bit about the nature of Blood Quantum as recent system vs traditional kinship ties in native communities, if I can, feel free to delete if not: Yeah the blood quantum system really a complex issue and hot debate topic in the Native community. You have some that are for it as a way to keep 'mixed bloods' or people with low BQs out federal tribal membership (and the services provided therein) and just as many Natives against the BQ system, because it was put in place by a white, colonizing government. But the entire purpose of it, when it was put into place, was for white government to decide who was and was not native and quantify it with fractions. Hence that old joke of 1/16th Cherokee ect. No other culture is required to do this. In order to even apply for membership in a lot of tribes, you need a card from the Bureau of Indian Affairs that says what 'amount' of 'native blood' you have and which tribe. And the BIA was put in place by, guess who? So you need a card that basically tells people you're Native and then you can apply.

Now, some tribes go based off of lineal descent: One of my mother's tribes, the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, does this. You need to be a direct descendent of someone listed on the Dawes Rolls Cherokee By Blood and prove it with a line of birth and death records leading from that ancestor to you. For this particular tribe, they don't disqualify based on quantum. If you can prove you are descended from one or more person on the Rolls, you can enroll as a tribal member. The other of my mother's tribes, 1 of the 3 federally recognized Shawnee tribes DOES look at degree of Native blood. It's random.

Pre-contact, it was not about blood or the made up idea of race. It was about community connection, tradition, ties to culture and the people. Traditionally the Cherokees were matrilineal - - if your mother was Cherokee, so were you. It didn't matter if you were mixed at all. But the centuries of anti-native policies, scientific racism ect and the desire to protect our communities from those who seek to benefit from services for Native tribal members, this divide has been put in place. It's caused so many issues within native communities about who can/cannot identify as indigenous and then you have every Tom Dick and Harry who love to claim that their great grandma was a Cherokee Princess.

The end goal of the blood quantum was and is to breed out Nativeness. My siblings and I are an example of that 'success' because we're assimilated, white passing mixed Natives. We still have 'native blood' but we don't look Native anymore, aside from skin tone, especially when we tan. The huge problem is that in a few generations, if we keep to the BQ standard, the number of Natives will plummet and the end goal of complete eradication of Natives on paper and in the eyes of the government is achieved.

The BQ debate also feeds directly into the issue of dating, marrying and having children with non-natives if you are native, but that's not the point.

Peopled don't know this, because we haven't really started to focus on indigenous history, the TRUTH of it, until the last few decades. So don't fee bad about it. In America, it's normal for people to ask 'what percentage native are you'; I get that question and I simply say I'm native, that's all.

That was so interesting to read. I had no idea how complex it all is. Thank you so much for taking the time out to explain it to me.

#blood quantum

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