>>3933088blood quantum is a colonial notion, and also really hard to quantify when your family intermarried as early as 1700 and then intermarried off and on with their third-fourth cousins every few generations (this sounds like inbreeding to a midwit, but that's a more diverse genepool than the average european)
My 4th great grandmother was a full-blooded Waccamaw born into slavery because the Waccamaw had sided with the Tuscarora a few decades earlier and lost. Other relationships are harder to quantify, because they're situations like tory families that sheltered with British-friendly tribes during the revolution, or the inverse in one occasion.
Blood quantum and tribal enrollment is centered around rolls taken in the 1800s. Doesn't really factor in the paper genocide aspect of the story or early admixture in Virginia or the Carolinas. Ever heard of the Cheraw or Lumbee? How about the Mowa?
What's *your* blood quantum? Can you show the math?
In Washington County, Alabama census takers estimated around 5000 Choctaw in 1900, around 3000 in 1920, and around 1500 in 1930, but they didn't go anywhere. This was already decades after Choctaw removal. They just started identifying or being identified as other things. "Cajans", whites, and blacks.
Ever heard of the Metis in Canada? You're kind of missing the big picture on North American history if you think that admixture is confined to Canada alone.
This complicates a lot of peoples narratives about American history I guess, particularly a daft European.
Also the woman in that picture is William Weatherford's great granddaughter. Her father was my kin.
I don't know or care about my blood quantum, because I know the specifics of who a lot of people were and how they lived their lives. That's more important than some wacky purity spiral suggested by some guy whose parents are probably divorced.
