"A person's blood quantum is defined as the percentage of their ancestors who are documented as full-blood Native Americans. The US federal government uses a blood quantum minimum as a measure of 'Indian' identity to manage tribal enrollments and access to cultural and social services. Evidence suggests that if current demographic trends continue, within a few generations tribes will legally disappear. Through essays, personal stories, case studies, satire, and poetry, a lauded collection of international contributors will explore blood quantum as biology and as cultural metaphor. Featuring diverse and talented Native voices representing different generations, backgrounds, and literary styles, The Great Vanishing Act, addresses the most critical issue facing Native Americans and all indigenous populations in the 21st century and hopes to redefine the meaning of cultural citizenship."-- Provided by publisher.

It's in the blood, and in the earth : Haudenosaunee descent and identity / Richard Hill -- Love in the time of blood quantum / Adrienne Keene -- Good guidance / Leslie Logan -- Walking in two worlds : the Native American college experience / Olivia Hoeft -- Trickster teaches the prairie dogs how to disenroll their members / Robert Chanate -- Fraction of love / Reed Bobroff -- Bloodflow / Reed Bobroff -- Vampire policy is bleeding us dry : blood quantums, be gone! / Suzan Shown Harjo -- Bleeding out : histories and legacies of "Indian blood" / Doug Kiel -- Decolonizing colonial constructions of indigenous identity : a conversation between Debra Harry and Leonie Pihama / Debra Harry and Leonie Pihama -- Race and sovereignty / Julia Coates -- Twentieth century tribal blood politics : policy, place, and descent / Kim TallBear -- Who counts? : indians and the u.s. census / Russell Thornton -- NDN DNA / Jessica Kolopenuk -- (Re)building the L�ühui (Hawaiian Nation) / Maile Taualii -- Making ourselves whole with words : a short history of white earth anishinaabeg tribal citizenship criteria / Jill Doerfler -- Blood quantum : the mathematics of ethnocide / Favid E. Wilkins and Shelly H. McDonald -- What can tribal child welfare policy teach us about tribal citizenship? / Miriam Jorgensen, Adrian Smith, Terry Cross, and Sarah Kastelic -- Blood quantum : fractionated land, fractionated people / Richard Monette -- Reconsidering blood quantum criteria for the expansion of tribal jurisdiction / Rebecca M. Webster -- Blood, identity, and the ainu society in contemporary japan / Yuka Mizutani -- From tribal members to native nation citizens / Stephen Cornell and Joseph P. Kalt -- We chose this, now what? : what comes after blood quantum? / Gyasi Ross -- Applying indigenous values to contemporary tribal citizenship : challenge and opportunity / LaDonna Harris, Kathryn Harris Tijerina, and Laura Harris.