You're standing in the blood
quantum line
With a pitcher in your hand
Poured from your heart into your veins
You said I am
I am
I am
Now measure me
Measure me
Tell me where I stand
Allocate my very soul
Like you have my land
-Excerpt from "Blood Quantum," a song by The Indigo Girls
from Blood Quantum A complicated system that determines tribal membership threatens the future of American Indians by Andrea Appleton in High Country News
January 19, 2009 Vol.41 No.1 Pg.17
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