Tuesday, December 9, 2025 – Tribes ponder blood quantum alternative

Crow leadership are working toward revamping their tribal citizenship requirements. If their proposal goes through, any currently enrolled tribal citizens would be designated as having 100% Crow blood. The St. Croix Ojibwe Tribe in Wisconsin is seeing their first tribal enrollment gains in years after they got rid of their blood quantum requirement. They are among the tribes looking down the road and mapping a future away from the Indian blood requirement. GUESTS Levi Black Eagle (Apsáalooke), secretary of the Crow Tribe Conrad St. John (St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin), chairman of St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin Jill Doerfler (White Earth Anishinaabe), professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota-Duluth Cheyenne Robinson (Omaha), treasurer for the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska Jonaye Doney (Aaniih), student at the University of Montana   Break 1 Music: Intertribal (song) Blackfoot Confederacy (artist) Confederacy Style (album) Break 2 Music: She Raised Us (song) Joanne Shenandoah (artist) LifeGivers (album)