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Critical Cataloging: Examining LCSH as Text: A Visualization by Mia Tignor

Mixed Bloods

as a subdivision under INDIANS; INDIANS OF MEXICO; INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA; AND INDIANS OF SOUTH AMERICA.

A colorful, frontier-style term that no doubt appeals to whole generations on Cowboy-and-Indian thrillers, it nevertheless represents shoddy science and the White Man's hauteur: (a) "Blood" is by no means the crucial element in genetic crossing; it is merely one element among many for determining or defining "racial" groups and not in itself a causal factor; (b) It is highly dubious that Indians anywhere in the Americas credit "Mixed bloods" as a proper, acceptable term for persons of White-Indian or Black-Indian parentage. In Mexico, for example, the common designation for the majority of the population descended from the Europeans and Indians alike (with some African admixture) is "Mestizos," not "Sangres mixtas".

Remedy: Canvass the principal Amerindian organizations, establishing a substitute head through consensus.

Sanford Berman, Prejudices and Antipathies, 1971.

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Half-Breeds Running Buffalo, 1846 Métis buffalo hunt on the prairies of Dakota in June 1846. The man lying on the ground is Kane himself. Compare the clothing with that on Kane Prairie.jpg, and Kane reported in his travel account that he fell from the horse and got nearly run over by the buffalos, but was saved from that fate by one of the Métis who chased the animals around him and shielded him from the herd. Despite this incident, Kane managed to kill two bisons himself. The scene obviously is from the Métis buffalo hunt in June 1846 as they run the buffalos by horse on the open prairie; the later buffalo hunts Kane witnessed were either a Cree pound hunt (between Ft. Carlton and Ft. Edmonton on the north side of the North Saskatchewan River), or hunts with HBC people, but these occurred in winter 1847/48 at Ft. Edmonton.