pure blood?

Question:in regards to Aboriginal Indians/first nations?
does blood Quantrum count 3/4 of one nation and 1/4 of another as full blood/pure blood?? or would this be considered mixed??

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does blood Quantrum count 3/4 of one nation and 1/4 of another as full blood/pure blood?? or would this be considered mixed??

I don't believe there is a "pure blood" anything in the human race. After tens of thousands of years, I would say that by now, we are ALL pretty mixed.

In the context you speak of a full blood would be 100% Indian.

Such a thing wouldn't exist anymore.

There's been too much mixing in the last couple of thousand years!!

I think an analogy might be a person who has 4 grandparents..
three of whom are full blooded Cherokee, and the last grandparent of the 4 is of another tribe, ie Blackfoot.
Any grandchildren would be fully of Native lineage.. but it would be of different tribes. If looking from the Cherokee side, the grandchildren are not "fully" Cherokee, nor fully Blackfoot. It is mixed. If looking ONLY AS Native, as opposed to French and Native.. then they would be 100% Native.
It can been seen either direction.. depending on who is making the definition.

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Full-Blood:
1."Relationship established through having the same set of parents,. or a person or an animal of unmixed race or breed."
2. of unmixed ancestry; "full-blooded Native American";

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"Blood quantum laws" is an umbrella term that describes legislation enacted to define membership in Native American groups. "Blood quantum" refers to attempts to calculate the degree of racial inheritance for a given individual.
The Dawes Act, also known as the General Allotment Act, was part of a federal initiative from 1887 to 1934 to "civilize" the Indians by forcing them into Western cultural and legal practices, which is defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as genocide. The strategy of this Act was to take lands held in common by tribes as reservations and break them up into individually-owned parcels. Parcels of land were given to individuals who could prove that they were members of the tribe who owned the land, and the remainder was often opened for white settlement. Tribes set their own membership requirements, and many used blood quantum as part of the necessary qualification. Many Indian tribes continue to employ blood quantum in their own current tribal laws to determine who is eligible for membership or citizenship in the tribe or Native American nation. These often require a minimum degree of blood relationship and often an ancestor listed in a specific tribal census from the late 1800s or early 1900s.
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina, for example, require an ancestor listed in the 1924 Baker census and a minimum of 1/16 Cherokee blood inherited from their ancestor(s) on that roll. Meanwhile the Western Cherokee require applicants to descend from an ancestor in the 1906 Dawes roll (direct lineal ancestry), but impose no minimum blood quantum requirement. The Ute require a 5/8 blood quantum, the highest requirement of any U.S. tribe, while the Miccosukee of Florida, the Mississippi Choctaw and the St. Croix Chippewa of Wisconsin all require 1/2 "tribal blood quantum". At the other end of the scale, the Mashantucket Pequot of Connecticut and the Sac and Fox of Oklahoma both require 1/16, whereas the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon require a combined minimum of 1/16 from any of a list of several Oregon indigenous peoples. The Navajo Nation requires a 1/4 blood quantum. A 1/4 blood requirement is by far the most common, along with requirements of "Lineal descendency" which do not specify any minimum tribal ancestry.
U.S. tribes set their own rules to determine tribal membership, and that they can decide on their own whether or not to employ blood quantum. Groups such as the Cherokee Freedman and others claim they are denied tribal rights based on the blood quantum laws. The base rolls recorded blacks simply as blacks despite the fact that they had been made members of the tribe and even when they may have had some degree of Indian blood.
Federal blood quantum laws continue to affect benefits that some individuals of Indian descent receive from the Federal government, independent of tribal law. For example, in 1985, the US Congress passed the Quarter Blood Amendment Act to determine which Indian students were eligible for Indian education programs and tuition-free attendance at the Bureau of Indian Affairs or contract schools. This must be verified by obtaining a Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood which is sometimes also used for tribal determinations.
Because many Native American tribes currently base tribal membership on blood quantum, blood quantum plays a significant role in Native American religious freedom. The eagle feather law, Title 50 Part 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations stipulates that only members of federally recognized tribes are eligible to obtain permits for eagle feathers, which are religious objects to many Native Americans. Individuals without the mandatory blood quantum cannot become enrolled tribal members or obtain permits for eagle feathers for religious use.