Blood Will Tell: Native Americans and Assimilation Policy

by Katherine Ellinghaus

Book Overview

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 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803225431
• ISBN13: 9780803225435
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"