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blood quantums

blood quantums is the plural of blood quantum.

Meaning of blood quantum

Noun

blood quantum (plural blood quantums or blood quanta)

  1. (US, offensive, proscribed, sometimes) The fraction of a person's ancestors, out of their total ancestors, who are documented as full-blooded Native Americans.
    • Native blood quantum was introduced in 1705 at the Virginia Colony. If you were at least half Native, you didn’t have the same rights as white people. Blood quantum and tribal membership qualifications have since been turned over to individual tribes to decide.2018, Tommy Orange, There There, Harvill Secker, page 137

Questions about blood quantums

What is blood quantums the plural of?
Blood quantums is the plural of blood quantum.

Words near blood quantums in the dictionary

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  2. blood pudding
  3. blood puddings
  4. blood quanta
  5. blood quantum
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  7. blood rain
  8. blood rains
  9. blood red
  10. blood reds
  11. blood relation

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