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The math of blood quantum is straight-forward.
Suppose a tribe has 1,000 enrolled citizens. Let’s assume they are all full-blood for starters, but half the children born are mixed – their other parent either from another tribe or non-Native. Continuing this, after seven generations, 2% will be full-blood, 9% will be half, 23% will be quarter, 31% will be 1/8th, 23% will be 1/16th, and 11% will be less than that. You can see where this going. By the eighth generation, half the tribe will be less than 1/8th. It’s a recipe for what the white man called “extermination.”
The Ford and Rockefeller foundations funded “population control” programs that went horrifically awry.
Hardin was wrong. There was not a tragedy of overuse. The Commons were dismantled by the state to make room for the formal economy and higher income user groups. I revisit the history of the Commons as a central, planned space in cities in order to ask two main questions. First, what role did the Commons play for cities and how is its lost felt? Second, how might planning reintroduce the Commons? In response, this research builds a functional theory of self-sufficiency at multiple scales of governance based on the opportunities of the Commons. The conclusion charts an urgent agenda for planning practice during a global population phase shift as cities increasingly house a greater proportion of humanity.
Face to face reopening “prioritizes the losses that our most privileged students fear over the losses that our most vulnerable students face.”
“A scientific lie had become a pillar of genocide in just 20 years.”