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  2. /19.1.2 Membership in a Tribal Community
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blood quantum

blood quantum
a term first applied by the US federal government to determine which people had rights to services and land at reservations. The term has become a characteristic to define who is eligible for citizenship in a tribe, with membership open only to those who have a minimum blood quantum of Indigenous genealogical ancestry.
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