Blood Quantum
For Native people blood quantum has been the only way to “prove” that you are a Native American. If, for example, you had a full-blood Cherokee mother and a white father, you are 1/2 Cherokee. If one parent is a full-blood and the other is 1/2 then you would be 3/4ths. If you married a non-Indian your children would be 3/8ths. If your children married non-Indians, your grandchildren would be 3/16ths, and so on.

It wasn’t until 1924 that Native Americans were recognized as citizens of the United States and given the right to vote.

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