The Great Vanishing Act: Blood Quantum and the Future of Native Nations Folktales Rachel must search her heart--and

Rachel must search her heart--and her past--to restore a splintered family tree

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The Great Vanishing Act: Blood Quantum and the Future of Native Nations Folktales Rachel must search her heart--andThe Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 was the US governments attempt to define who Indians were. Among the criteria the act set was a blood quantum, which declared that Indians were "all other persons of one half or more Indian blood". Today, many tribes wrestle with the legacy of blood quantum and Indian identity, as they work to manage tribal enrollment and social services. As the bloodlines grow increasingly diluted, within a few generation,