Blood Will Tell

Native Americans and Assimilation Policy

Katherine Ellinghaus (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

234 Seiten

2017
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-0-8032-2543-5 (ISBN)

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Blood Will Tell reveals the underlying centrality of blood in shaping 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 identity and national status between 1887 and 1934 and how related exclusionary policies functioned to dispossess Native people of their land. The U.S. government’s unspoken assumption at the time was that Natives of mixed descent were undeserving of tribal status and benefits, notwithstanding that these people played crucial roles in the national implementation of allotment policy.

Ellinghaus explores on-the-ground case studies of Anishinaabeg, Arapahos, Cherokees, Eastern Cherokees, Cheyennes, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, Lakotas, Lumbees, Ojibwes, Seminoles, and Virginia tribes. Documented in these cases, the history of blood quantum as a policy reveals assimilation’s implications and legacy. The role of blood quantum is integral to understanding how Native Americans came to be one of the most disadvantaged groups in the United States, and it remains a significant part of present-day debates about Indian identity and tribal membership. Blood Will Tell is an important and timely contribution to current political and scholarly debates.

Katherine Ellinghaus is an associate professor of history at La Trobe University in Melbourne. She is the author of Taking Assimilation to Heart: Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in Australia and the United States, 1887–1937 (Nebraska, 2006) and coeditor of Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the Construction of an Identity.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	28.09.2017
Reihe/Serie	New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies
Zusatzinfo	5 illustrations, index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8032-2543-1 / 0803225431
ISBN-13	978-0-8032-2543-5 / 9780803225435
Zustand	Neuware