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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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