Indians have the highest rate of interracial marriage of any minority in America. In 1970, more than thirty-three percent of all Indians were married to non-Indians (compared to one percent of all Americans who married outside their race). A decade later that number was fifty percent. A congressional study suggested that the perecentage of Indians with half or more Indian blood would decline from about eighty-seven percent in 1980 to just eight perecent by 2080. As a result of this trend, many Indians believe that it is time that tribes dispense with the blood quantum as a criterion of membership. In fact, Indians marched in protest over the use of the blood quantum in Denver in March, 1999, stating that use of a blood quntum to determine membership disenfranchises increasing numbers of mixed-blood urban youths.
-The Algebra of Federal Indian Law: The Hard Trail of Decolonizing and Americanizing The White Man's Indian Jurisprudence by Robert A. Williams, Jr.
Wisconsin Law Review 1986
Pg.309
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