TIANA ANTOINE AND NATHAN DRENNAN
Tiana Antoine, 25, and Nathan Drennan, 28, are both tribal members of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. They began dating in July 2017 and are living on the Flathead Indian Reservation. To be an enrolled member of the tribes, an individual must have ¼ of Salish and Kootenai blood. With a blood quantum of ¹¹3
⁄128, Antoine has enough to enroll her child in the
tribes regardless of her partner’s race. Drennan, however, is only ¼ Salish and Kootenai and so chose to date only women from his tribe. “I wanted my kid to be enrolled for cultural reasons,” he says.
TIANA ANTOINE WITH HER DAUGHTER MAR’RAH
Eleven-year-old Mar’rah Friedlander is Tiana Antoine’s daughter from a previous relationship. Friedlander’s blood quantum, ¹¹3
⁄256, currently only reflects the amount
of tribal blood she obtained from her mother. Her total amount is actually higher because her biological father is also enrolled. Friedlander will need to file paperwork to add her biological father’s blood to her quantum if in the future she wants to have children and enroll them. As of now, Friedlander’s children would be 15
⁄512 short
of enrollment. Paperwork correction is common. One correction
affects every subsequent generation’s blood quantum. In 2009, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes en- rollment rose 3.4 percent after a correction was found, resulting in 246 new enrollments that year compared to just 55 the previous year.
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