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From Adoption to Eviction: The Blood Quantum and the Mohawks
adoptions, blood-quantum, Canadian federal laws, demographic control, genetic, identity, Mohawks, reservations, social control, tribal laws, US federal lawsBy: SANDRA BUSATTA – Historically the Mohawks survived as a political-ethnic entity thanks to massive adoptions of people from other tribes, as well as European countries. They counted more ‘galvanized’ Mohawks than full-blooded ones already at the end of the 17th century. While they stopped adopting whole tribes after the Mourning/Beaver Wars, in the 18th…

