The Land is Alive and so are the Dead: Blood Quantum a First Nations Zombie Film
3 min readMay 1, 2020
The policing of blood has been apart of indigenous discourses since the first colonial encounter. The colonial state uses blood to racialized the other. Just as the one-drop rule for Black Americans made them Black, one drop of white blood was thought to remove the native from the body — a key tenant of the second phase of the genocide: forced removal…