A study of the role blood quantum played in the assimilation period between 1887 and 1934 in the United States.
 

List of Illustrations    
Introduction: The Discourse of Blood in the Assimilation Period    
1. Fraud: The Allotment of the Anishinaabeg    
2. Chaos: The Dawes Commission and the Five Tribes    
3. Practically White: The Federal Policy of Competency    
4. The Same Old Deal: The 1934 Indian Reorganization Act    
5. Colored: The Indian Nations of Virginia and the 1924 Racial Integrity Act    
Conclusion: Writing Blood into the Assimilation Period    
Acknowledgments    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index
 

Katherine Ellinghaus is an associate professor of history at La Trobe University in Melbourne. She is the author of Taking Assimilation to Heart: Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in Australia and the United States, 1887–1937 (Nebraska, 2006) and coeditor of Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the Construction of an Identity.