Dr_DMT t1_j77y8x0 wrote
Reply to comment by Chiefo104 in TIL the number of people who identify as Native American on the US Census increased by 86% from 2010 to 2020. by substantial-freud
Because unless your relatives want to be incestuous, there's no way to keep the current blood quantum requirements.
Slick_36 t1_j79jnjn wrote
Also prevents tribal members from leaving the reservation. You can marry before leaving for a career, but your kids would have to move back to find a partner of their own. Good luck telling your kids that they have to marry not just within the same race, but the same tribe if they want their kids to inherit their identity.
It's basically ensuring those communites shrink until they disappear. It's not historical, it's not traditional, it's a calculated way to drain the blood from the tribe & disguise it as freedom of choice.
Chiefo104 t1_j77zhgh wrote
My family tree has branches overlapping. Luckily it's a couple generations in the past.
My great great grandma was married and had a child with a man. He then had a child with my great grandma. I also know of at least 2 sets of first cousins, not from my family, who are married with kids.
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