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Blood will tell : Native Americans and assimilation policy /

"Blood Will Tell reveals the underlying centrality of "blood" 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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ellinghaus, Katherine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2017.
Colección:New visions in Native American and indigenous studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction: The Discourse of Blood in the Assimilation Period; 1. Fraud: The Allotment of the Anishinaabeg; 2. Chaos: The Dawes Commission and the Five Tribes; 3. Practically White: The Federal Policy of Competency; 4. The Same Old Deal: The 1934 Indian Reorganization Act; 5. Colored: The Indian Nations of Virginia and the 1924 Racial Integrity Act; Conclusion: Writing Blood into the Assimilation Period; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index.