BACKGROUND
The role of race within tribal communities is a contentious topic, and some of this acrimony emerged from 19th-century Indian policies rooted in scientific racism. There has been relatively little written on the role of intermarriage within indigenous communities.

METHODS
We link household data from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina at the turn of the 20th century to individual two-generational family trees located in legal documents to investigate the link between personal property and whether a household head had white ancestry.

RESULTS
We find that the racial gap in property does not follow simple racial hierarchies but rather depends on the gender of the household head. However, once selection into intermarriage is accounted for, the racial gap in property from intermarriage is eliminated. In fact, households containing a male head with close white ancestors held less property than households containing a male head without white ancestry.



中文翻译：

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同化时代的种族和农业：来自切罗基印第安人东部乐队的证据（作者：Matthew Gregg、Melinda C. Miller）

背景
种族在部落社区中的作用是一个有争议的话题，其中一些激烈的争论源于 19 世纪印度植根于科学种族主义的政策。关于通婚在土著社区中的作用的文章相对较少。

方法
我们将 20 世纪初北卡罗来纳州切罗基印第安人东部部落的家庭数据与法律文件中的两代人家谱联系起来，以调查个人财产与户主是否有白人血统之间的联系。

结果
我们发现，财产的种族差异并不遵循简单的种族等级，而是取决于户主的性别。然而，一旦考虑到通婚的选择，通婚在财产上的种族差异就消除了。事实上，与有男性户主但没有白人血统的家庭相比，拥有男性户主和近亲白人祖先的家庭拥有的财产更少。