Blood Quantum - A New Way to Measure Indianness

American indians have certainly been racialized, and we see that from cartoons, caricatures, mascots. It's really been a societyal project to racialize what is actually a very diverse group of political entities and sovereign nations. For a long time, growing up in north dakota on the reservation, taylor didn't even know what flood quantum was. She tells me about this moment she was 16.