Tribes ponder blood quantum alternative

 

Native America Calling: https://www.nativeamericacalling.com/tuesday-december-9-2025-tribes-ponder-blood-quantum-alternative/

Crow leadership are working toward revamping their tribal citizenship requirements. If their proposal goes through, any currently enrolled tribal citizens would be designated as having 100% Crow blood.  The St. Croix Ojibwe Tribe in Wisconsin is seeing their first tribal enrollment gains in years after they got rid of their blood quantum requirement. They are among the tribes looking down the road and mapping a future away from the Indian blood requirement.

GUESTS

Levi Black Eagle (Apsáalooke), secretary of the Crow Tribe

Conrad St. John (St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin), chairman of St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin

Jill Doerfler (White Earth Anishinaabe), professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota-Duluth

Cheyenne Robinson (Omaha), treasurer for the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska

Jonaye Doney (Aaniih), student at the University of Montana

Birthright Citizenship?

 

Drumph/Trump's ancestors are from Germany

EXCERPT:

The history of birthright citizenship in the US

That exception has traditionally been interpreted to exclude foreign diplomats’ children, foreign enemies in hostile occupation or Native American children subject to tribal laws. But some say the children of noncitizens fall under that umbrella, too.

The 14th Amendment reads: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”  It didn’t, however, always apply to everyone.  It wasn’t until 1924, for example, that Congress granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S.

https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-decision/