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Blood quantum
As tribal bloodlines thin and policy debates grow louder, it's time to ask whether the boundaries we draw around ancestry still serve justice—or simply preserve power.
Like many who now call Sequim home, Al Courtney didn’t grow up here—but once he arrived, he knew the stories of how the town came to be were worth preserving. In 2000, he helped collect oral histories that were published as Sequim: Pioneer Histories from 1850 to WWII, followed by a second volume covering up to 1962. These books are more than local trivia—they trace names, families, and how small-town bonds shaped a community…
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