The 1910 special U.S. census of American Indians, overseen by Harvard anthropologist Roland Dixon, reported that mixed-blood Indians were increasing much faster than full-blood Indians and concluded that, unless conditions changed, full-blood Indians would eventually disappear altogether.
Sources
- Racial Reorganization and the United States Census 1850-1930 (jlhochschild.scholars.harvard.edu)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK233098/ (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/studies-in-american-political-development/article/abs/racial-reorganization-and-the-united-states-census-18501930-mulattoes-halfbreeds-mixed-parentage-hindoos-and-the-mexican-race/76B89033239894D4CC8E13189A5CB1DF (cambridge.org)
- https://agris.fao.org/search/en/records/65ddfdcf0f3e94b9e5c90d80 (agris.fao.org)
- https://cooperative-individualism.org/thornton-russell_native-american-demographic-and-tribal-survival-2005.pdf (cooperative-individualism.org)
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