S.D. Nelson remembers the stories his mother told him as a youngster growing up in Fargo about his Lakota ancestors and heritage. The father of two passed those tales on to his own children, but with ...

A new book, "Beyond Blood Quantum: Refusal to Disappear," explores the concept of Indigenous identity and the impact of blood quantum requirements on tribal membership. Blood quantum, a system imposed ...

Sitting in a shaded spot outside of the UO’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History, senior Stephanie Wood breathes in and sighs. “It’s good to be home!” she says. Wood recently returned from an ...

The discourse of blood in the assimilation period -- Fraud : the allotment of the Anishinaabeg -- Chaos : the Dawes Commission and the Five Tribes -- Practically white : the federal policy of ...