# Buffy Sainte-Marie‘s Honorary Degree revoked

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That might be the origin of the concept. But nowadays, each tribe is allowed to determine their own criteria for citizenship, which may or may not include blood quantum, and even if they do use it, they’re free to define it according to their own records, or the records of the claimant, rather than the Department of Interior’s records.

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