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For centuries, blood was law in America, with the power to remove land rights and freedom status. Indigenous communities like the Gingaskin and Pamunkey fought to maintain their identities and land rights, while Black communities navigated a racial purity system designed to enslave their families for generations.
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Want to learn more? Check out:
That the blood stay pure by Arica L. Coleman
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle T. Mays
Pocahontas’s People : The Powhatan Indians of Virginia through Four Centuries by Helen C. Rountree
A Legal History of Blood Quantum in Federal Indian Law to 1935 by Paul Spruhan
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