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Letter: Prejudice against mixed bloods
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2002 "Delphine Red Shirt's recent column in The Hartford Courant condemning mixed-blood Connecticut tribes as somehow being ‘less than Indian' brings into the light of day a sad fact among American Indian tribes—the scourge of intertribal prejudice by some Indians against Native Americans of mixed blood. Many Natives of large tribes, who have not had to face the reality of the horrors inbreeding can cause, choose to ignore this reality in favor of their own perception of who should be considered an Indian and who should not. There's nearly always somebody who claims to be a full-blood but who has at least one European ancestor hiding in her closet." Get the Story:
Letter: No Indian can claim to be full-blooded (Debra Utacia Krol. The New London Day 12/18) Original Column:
Delphine Red Shirt: These Are Not Indians (The Hartford Courant 12/12) Related Stories:
Letters: Who is a 'real' Indian? (12/12)
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