"Mixed-Blood" Indians in Southern New England

Nottaway

7/16/2009 1:36 AM UTC

Another consideration to ponder: You can be Hispanic by blood or by Culture. In either case, you gain the same minority rights and privileges. However, according to the state and federal government, your Indianness is determined to be such based upon a racial designation of not less than one forth (1/4) Indian or ENROLLED into a Federal or state acknowledged tribe.

Nottaway

7/16/2009 1:33 AM UTC

Even if the Birth record was to be based on the racial construct of the father, her father was more Indian and White than Black... the Indian Blood should have been the deciding factor of a racial designation...but it wasn't. Paper genocide at the discretion of the State.

Nottaway

7/16/2009 1:30 AM UTC

In the case of MS Jennings...the record should have declared her to be WHITE according to the Alberty decision, and not Negro ah her birth record implied.

Nottaway

7/16/2009 1:28 AM UTC

based upon OWNERSHIP, and this, long after it was legal for there to be involuntary servitude. In Black's Law Dictionary, we see that a Marriage License is ONLY appropriate when a couple is contemplating a marriage between people of different races, as between a white person and a negro.

Nottaway

7/16/2009 1:27 AM UTC

However, the United States demanded, and got, jurisdiction over the case, using as their argument the doctrine of "Partus Sequitur Ventrem," meaning that the offspring is the [property of the owner of the mother]. The mothers of both men had been black slaves before the [un] civil war, but the children were born after the war. The case was brought in 1896, roughly 40 years after the emancipation proclamation. In this court case, we see the federal government declaring jurisdiction base

Nottaway

7/16/2009 1:26 AM UTC

However, the United States demanded, and got, jurisdiction over the case, using as their argument the doctrine of "Partus Sequitur Ventrem," meaning that the offspring is the [property of the owner of the mother]. The mothers of both men had been black slaves before the [un] civil war, but the children were born after the war. The case was brought in 1896, roughly 40 years after the emancipation proclamation. In this court case, we see the federal government declaring jurisdiction bas

Nottaway

7/16/2009 1:24 AM UTC

Interesting talk. The offspring follows the condition of the mother according to the US Supreme Court in Alberty v. United States for showing that slavery with federal ownership is still in effect, with the birth certificate being the title for the slave. The case of Alberty v United States was over the murder of a half-black, half-Choctaw man by a half-black, half-Cherokee man, on Cherokee territory. The Cherokee people assumed the right of trying one of the members of their tribe. However, th