Talk:Half-Breed Tract

Half-breeds
It might be useful to give a review of the membership/descent criteria of a few of the tribes in these states - in some cases in other areas, mixed-blood children by a father in the tribe were accepted if the mother had been adopted (thinking of older Iroquois practice. There were other issues about family and clan.--Parkwells (talk) 21:21, 5 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I am writing a Ph.D. dissertation on the Iowa Half-Breed Tract and have also done quite a bit of research on the Minnesota Tract. I think the section on the Iowa tract could benefit from a more in-depth discussion of the Decree of Partition in 1841. The Decree of Partition split the tract into 101 shares of just over 1,000 acres a piece and specified which "half-breed" owner each plot belonged to. By then, land speculators with ties to eastern groups like the New York Land Company had bought up most of the mixed-race peoples' shares, so the Decree effectively gave eastern land speculators control of the land. The situation was complicated by the white squatters who actually lived on most of the reservation. They had no intention of moving, even if the courts decided the land belonged to the speculators. A nasty legal battle ensued. Does anyone mind if I add some of this information to the article? Hillmap (talk) 21:15, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

Canada
I got off into one of your sources, about Métis firsts in Canada and the US (Métis of Manitoba reference). What was striking were the number of highly educated métis in Canada who advanced to high positions in politics and government. Sometimes their progress seemed related to high-status fathers who gave them an education and also if their mothers were high status within First People tribes. In both countries, fathers worked harder to educate their sons.--Parkwells (talk) 21:48, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Half-breed tracts
It's a fascinating and huge story. You may need an overview article on the tracts here, then adding articles by state. Is that what you were thinking? I think it really helps to have one place where you treat the topic.--Parkwells (talk) 21:48, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I created Nemaha Half-Breed Tract. I don't think creating these per-state would be appropriate; per entity is better. It does strike me that these types of entities would have been all over these central states, particularly the fur trade states, but also Oklahoma. The South? The Northeast? Not sure, but maybe. They might have different names, but not similar to Canada there is no easy search term, i.e. Metis. Instead, half-breed, mixed blood, cross-breed... along with the naming of the tracts, which were reservations, reserves, tracts, and what more? It could be a complex search, but one I'll work on a bit. • Freechild   'sup?   02:53, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Contrasts between Canada and US
It might be really interesting to look at some of the contrasts and comparisons, for instance, on land, etc. There's a big topic.--Parkwells (talk) 21:48, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Kinship systems
It would be useful to research the kinship systems of these different tribes - since finding the article on how the Omaha rejected mixed-race children of white fathers as white, my interest is raised in this topic. Was going to try to assess this article for WP:Indigenous peoples of North America, and began to wonder about the patrilineal/matrilineal/hypodescent aspects again. Parkwells (talk) 17:55, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
 * This will likely be difficult as there had been so much social disruption by this period. I've started looking, though.Parkwells (talk) 18:08, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

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