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Folks, today we're discussing blood quantum bomb bomb bomb.

We both did it.

One time Adrian I was at Pepperdine giving a talk and one of the very important people,

the president, said to me,

how do I enroll the full blooded Indians? Where do I find them?

In front of a large group of people.

Enroll them in college?

Yeah. Oh, God.

Yeah, he said, well, you know, like we really want to increase our native population.

But you know, when we are looking for native students, we can't ever get the full blood.

Oh, geez.

I was like, oh, man.

So yeah, today we're going to be talking about blood quantum, which is something that is

a topic that comes up almost every time I interact with any people, but also a really big

and important issue facing our communities because blood quantum is often used for the

ways that we enroll in our tribal nations.

It's used to determine citizenship.

And I don't think a lot of folks because it becomes so normalized, like stop to really

think about where this concept even comes from and like what it actually means and the

implications of it because it's become so normalized and just a part of our everyday

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