{"product_id":"blood-will-tell-9780803225435","title":"Blood Will Tell","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eBlood Will Tell \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the underlying centrality of blood in shaping official ideas about who was eligible to be defined as Indian by the General Allotment Act in the United States. Katherine Ellinghaus traces the idea of blood quantum and how the concept came to dominate Native identity and national status between 1887 and 1934 and how related exclusionary policies functioned to dispossess Native people of their land. The U.S. government’s unspoken assumption at the time was that Natives of mixed descent were undeserving of tribal status and benefits, notwithstanding that these people played crucial roles in the national implementation of allotment policy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ellinghaus explores on-the-ground case studies of Anishinaabeg, Arapahos, Cherokees, Eastern Cherokees, Cheyennes, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, Lakotas, Lumbees, Ojibwes, Seminoles, and Virginia tribes. Documented in these cases, the history of blood quantum as a policy reveals assimilation’s im\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ellinghaus has taken a nuanced approach to an incredibly complex and wide-ranging topic with successful results. The book is thoroughly researched, well argued, and will be especially useful to scholars of nineteenth-century American Indian history and federal Indian policy.\"—Natalie Panther, \u003ci\u003eChronicles of Oklahoma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBlood Will Tell\u003c\/i\u003e engages with and makes important contributions to the historical scholarship and contemporary political debates on race and citizenship in the academy, as well as in American Indian families, communities, and nations.\"—Jill Doerfler, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book makes a significant contribution to how we interpret assumptions about ethnicity, skin color, and cultural behavior—from low-level civil servants to official ideology to indigenous notions of identity. It is a welcome addition to furthering our understanding of blood quantum and Native American policy.\"—Ryan W. Schmidt, \u003ci\u003eGreat Plains Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBlood Will Tell\u003c\/i\u003e makes a brilliant and original contribution to historical scholarship on Indians, race, and settler colonialism in western American history and merits a wide readership.\"—Baligh Ben Taleb, \u003ci\u003ePacific Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBlood Will Tell\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable contribution to studies of the allotment era in particular and to studies of U.S.–American Indian relations and settler colonialism in general.\"—John R. Gram, \u003ci\u003eSouthwestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ellinghaus's work shines a light on a crucial component of federal Indian policy.\"—Christopher Steinke, \u003ci\u003eNebraska History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ellinghaus utilizes an impressive amount of archival research and specific case studies to show how the concept of blood permeated the policies of the Office of Indian Affairs during [the late nineteenth and early twentieth century].”—Paul Spruhan, \u003ci\u003eCanadian Journal of Native Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"Ellinghaus offers this book as a means for critiquing and analyzing the phenomenon of settler colonialism which allowed for tropes of authenticity to persist to today. It also adds to the story of Native Americans' unrelenting resistance with racial science and white structures. In light of the semi-recent events at Standing Rock, Native American persistence throughout history is again highlighted by their ability to resist and act against their oppressors.\"—Hannah Blubaugh, \u003ci\u003eOrigins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Katherine Ellinghaus brilliantly traces the uneven practices that produced a powerful discourse of American Indian blood quantum. With sure hand and subtle interpretation, \u003ci\u003eBlood Will Tell \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a compelling new reading of a technology of identity at once complicated and crude.”—Philip J. Deloria, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and author of \u003ci\u003eIndians in Unexpected Places\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Written with great clarity and precision. . . . Ellinghaus develops several key insights that will make contributions to historical scholarship on Indians, race, and western American history.”—Margaret Jacobs, Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and author of \u003ci\u003eA Generation Removed: The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations    \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Discourse of Blood in the Assimilation Period    \u003cbr\u003e 1. Fraud: The Allotment of the Anishinaabeg    \u003cbr\u003e 2. Chaos: The Dawes Commission and the Five Tribes    \u003cbr\u003e 3. Practically White: The Federal Policy of Competency    \u003cbr\u003e 4. The Same Old Deal: The 1934 Indian Reorganization Act    \u003cbr\u003e 5. Colored: The Indian Nations of Virginia and the 1924 Racial Integrity Act    \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Writing Blood into the Assimilation Period    \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e Notes    \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography    \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405245915479,"sku":"9780803225435","price":30.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803225435.jpg?v=1730489263","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/blood-will-tell-9780803225435","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}