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Blood Quantum is a 2019 Canadian horror film written, directed, and edited by Jeff Barnaby and starring Michael Greyeyes, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Forrest Goodluck, Kiowa Gordon, Brandon Oakes, Olivia Scriven, Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs, and Gary Farmer.
Blood quantum laws or Indian blood laws are laws that define Native Americans in the United States status by fractions of Native American ancestry. These laws were enacted by the federal government and state governments as a way to establish legally defined racial population groups .
Tribal constitutions outline criteria for citizenship which can include minimum blood quantum requirements, residency, lineal descendant, or other criteria. [11] Many tribes who formed governments under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 have minimum blood quantum requirements. [11]
Blood purity and related terms may refer to: Racial hygiene, an approach to eugenics in the early 20th century especially by Nazi Germany; Blood quantum laws, tribal laws in the United States defining Native American status; Limpieza de sangre, blood purity laws in Medieval Spain stipulating a social hierarchy based on ancestry
Churchill says that blood quantum laws have an inherent genocidal purpose; as intermarriage in the twentieth century has continued between tribal members and people not enrolled in tribes (and many without any Native ancestry), fewer of their descendants meet the federal blood quantum requirements for eligibility for certain financial services ...
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The concept of blood quantum has been used in New Zealand and Australia, if not under that name, to determine who was "Māori enough" or "Aboriginal enough" to qualify for certain legal status. It's no longer used in New Zealand law (I don't know about Australia) but the concept is still live in debates about indigenous rights.
Barnaby premiered his sophomore feature Blood Quantum at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, as the opener for the festival's Midnight Madness section. [11] The film was named the second runner-up for the festival's Grolsch People's Choice Midnight Madness Award. [12]