The term mixed-blood in the United States and Canada has historically been described as people of multiracial backgrounds, in particular mixed European and Native American ancestry.
They held high economic status of what was for years in the 18th and 19th centuries a two-tier society at settlements at trading posts, with other Europeans, American Indians, and mixed-blood workers below them.
The consequences of ratified constitutional articles on commerce and labor for public policy and, to a lesser degree, burgeoning western state and/or federal litigation, remain fruitful avenues for further research.
This violence, symbolic or otherwise, interfaced with non-dichotomous notions of kinship and (related) Anglo-American lexical glosses of Native American cultural expression in treaties of friendship.
Such treaties featured seventeenth- and eighteenth-century interpretive applications of ius gentium, the Roman law of nations, and infrequently appeared in the antebellum period.
[5] Contemporary energy policy, technology, and notions of Native American sovereignties in post-(neo)apartheid indigenous worlds converge, and then intersect with, community criteria in landscapes of power.
These green politics rest on earlier precedents, such as the consequences of Grand Coulee Dam construction and 1950s scholarly debates over indigenous territoriality in American Society for Ethnohistory member testimony.