"The use of the term breed is of course predicated not on Native concepts of identity and belonging through kinship and relatedness but on settler colonialism's construct of blood quantum. It is no small irony that is the same racist logic of the Social Darwinists of the nineteenth century who equated higher Indian blood quantum with evolutionary inferiority, an ideology that justified the genocidal practices of the U.S. government and led to the massive land theft and assimilationist policies of the Dawes era.
-The Ugliness of Indian-on-Indian Racism by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Indian Country Today
2-13-14
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