Mapping Family, Race, and Tribe in Indian Territory “Integrated” Troops Proud of their… Untangling Race, Sovereignty… 2018 Symposium on the American Indian Why Untangling our Red, White, and Black Heritage Matters Reading between the Lines… “Widening the Road for Independent Scholarship and Personal Narratives,” The Independent Scholar Presentation: Reading between the Lines with a New Lens: Tribal “Race Thinking” on the Eve of the Indian Reorganization Act A Personal History of the Allotment Era… Presentat
Search Skip to content RWBH HOME RECOGNITION MEDIA PRESENTATIONS Mapping Family, Race, and Tribe in Indian Territory “Integrated” Troops Proud of their… Untangling Race, Sovereignty… 2018 Symposium on the American Indian Why Untangling our Red, White, and Black Heritage Matters Reading between the Lines… “Widening the Road for Independent Scholarship and Personal Narratives,” The Independent Scholar Presentation: Reading between the Lines with a New Lens: Tribal “Race Thinking” on the Eve of the Indian Reor
This is the story of my people, a people whose racial, economic, social, cultural, and political identity was forged during the Allotment Period. It is an authentic American tale of how our government divided up Indian Territory, assigning acreage according to a dual system of blood quantum. In 1887, the Dawes Commission used a sliding scale for Indians of varying purity and another for those associated with the tribes whose blood ran Red, White, and Black.