> Subject: [CHOCTAW] Blood Quantum > Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 16:05:28 -0600 > From: "Kelli Staples" <kmstapl@hotmail.com> > To: CHOCTAW-L@rootsweb.com > > I've got a question. How do you figure blood quantum? If a father is 1/4 and the child is 3/4, how much is the mother? > > Besides the Dawes Roll, is there anywhere else blood quantum was figured? If so, where do I find it? Thanks for helping! > > Kelli > If it's just a math question, the answer (or non-answer) would go like this; the child is 3/4 or 6/8 Choctaw, and if the > child gets one half of it's parents' blood quantum, then the child got 1/8 from the father (who was 1/4 Indian)) and 5/8 > from the mother, which is not possible. The father would have to have been 1/2 for the child to be 3/4. As the question is > posed the most the child could be is 5/8. C. J. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >