The Complex Relationship between the Early Cherokee Nation and Blood Quantum

Question 1

Blood Quantum:

Answer 1

A strategy used by governments and tribes to authenticate the amount of “Native Blood” an individual has by tracing individual and group ancestry

Question 2

Racialized Socio-Poliical Formation:

Answer 2

Emphasizes the extent to which race is a social and political construction that operates on two levels, the micro (individual) and the macro (society)

Question 3

“Full Blooded”:

Answer 3

An individual or group that is deemed to be one hundred percent Native American without any White or Black ancestry.

Question 4

“Mixed Blood”:

Answer 4

An individual or group that has been deemed to have a mixed ancestry. Someone who has some Native American ancestry along with White or Black ancestries.

Question 5

Treaty Party:

Answer 5

Cherokee individuals that signed or were in agreeance with the Treaty of New Echota which gave Cherokees who signed 5 mil. for land in OK in exchange

Question 6

National Party:

Answer 6

Cherokee individuals that were against the signing of the Treaty of New Echota and instead staying in present-day Oklahoma to resit forced relocations

Question 7

Keetoowahs:

Answer 7

A religious group dedicated to the preservation of traditional Cherokee practices and beliefs

Question 8

Dawes Act of 1887:

Answer 8

Gave the presetting permission to break up reservation land and allot land based on Native American Rolls

Question 9

Race as a nation:

Answer 9

Racial metaphors of blood and kinship could be used to define a collective superorganism

Question 10

Race as blood quantum

Answer 10

Basing the legitimacy of someone’s racial identity by their kinship and ancestry