According to Crow Tribal leaders, membership numbers are dwindling. This year, more enrolled Crow members died than the number of new enrollees.

Now the Crow Tribal Executive Branch is acting fast, drafting a solution to increase the number of Crow members.

Hear reactions from Crow Tribal members:

Under the proposed legislation, any member enrolled in the Crow Tribe will be considered 100% full-blooded Crow, even if they only have a 25% blood quantum. This would allow the children of some tribal members, who were previously not allowed, to become enrolled.

Blood quantum has been a topic of conversation and controversy since the 1880s. In those days, the U.S. government needed ways to count native populations and imposed a method, known as blood quantum, that determined tribal eligibili

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