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Another piece of my Reservation Mathematics: Navigating Love in Native America is on display in New York with @wewomenphoto. Meet Jordynn Paz. Like many in her generation, for her child to be enrolled in her tribe she would need to find an Apsaalooké man to father it. Her tribe has approximately 10,000 members but after removing women, adding age restrictions and removing the large chunk of Apsaalooké she’s already related to, the dating pool is very limited. However, enrolled or not, her child will be Apsaalooké because she is. “My connection to my community comes from my mother. It comes from dancing, my language, my culture. With blood quantum it comes down to a number. That’s where people get confused. They think that number matters but the miss out on everything that makes us Apsaalooké.”