Love And Blood Quantum: Buy In Or Die Out?
It's a directive many Native Americans hear: Find yourself someone Native, it's about survival.
"It's a question that people have asked me, and that I sometimes wonder about myself," my friend says. "Are you only with him because he's Native?"
She's sitting outside at a picnic table. I can smell the desert and the cigarette smoke through the phone.
"And I guess the answer is that it's not not because he's Native. You know?"
I do know.
She and I were raised by different tribes on reservations 3,000 miles apart. As children, though, we internalized the same directive: Find yourself a Native man. Good
