Review: 'Indian Blood' Thin in Plot

AP Online;  August 8, 2006 ;     492 words ...NEW YORK - A.R. Gurney's new play, "Indian Blood," is an exercise in old-fashioned nostalgia...theater. Narrated by the teenage Eddie, "Indian Blood" evokes memories of other, more-accomplished...flaw. Since the other conflicts in "Indian Blood" derive from Gog's personality - most...

Nostalgia and Bloodlines in Buffalo

AP Online;  August 8, 2006 ;     492 words ...NEW YORK - A.R. Gurney's new play, "Indian Blood," is an exercise in old-fashioned nostalgia...theater. Narrated by the teenage Eddie, "Indian Blood" evokes memories of other, more-accomplished...flaw. Since the other conflicts in "Indian Blood" derive from Gog's personality - most...

REVIEW; Drama's blackmail begets; bad blood, good humor; Gurney's 'Indian...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  November 17, 2007 ;   DAMIEN JAQUES;   466 words ......Boulevard Ensemble's new mounting of his "Indian Blood" does the play justice. Gurney is known...knows well because he is one of them. "Indian Blood" is set in Buffalo, N.Y., the playwright...aristocratic repression. ------------ 'Indian Blood' continues through Dec. 2 at the ...

Indian Blood

The Village Voice;  August 16, 2006 ;   Feingold, Michael;   787 words ...Balanced Diet Gurney's Indian Blood gives food for thought, on a strict...material in Gurney's collected works. Indian Blood, Primary Stages' contribution to...grandfather's habit of claiming "Indian blood" (via a great-great-grandfather...

At Wellfleet, a family portrait that's awash in nostaglia

The Boston Globe;  September 19, 2007 ;   Sandy MacDonald;   582 words ...Indian Blood Play by A.R. Gurney Directed by: Tom...latest, the autobiographical memory play "Indian Blood," which had its debut at New York's...And "play" is perhaps pushing it. "Indian Blood" is an extended, static family portrait...

PROF'S GENEALOGY IS SKETCHY; HE OFFERS LITTLE CLARIFICATION

Rocky Mountain News;  February 5, 2005 ;   Kevin Flynn, Rocky Mountain News;   787 words ......Churchill with only one-sixty-fourth Indian blood. Nevertheless, the fiery Churchill...Elmwood, Ill., near Peoria, that he has Indian blood, mostly from his mother's side. He claimed...grandmother, Minnie Billington, had some Creek Indian blood. The News found no independent ...

PROF'S GENEALOGY IS SKETCHY HE OFFERS LITTLE CLARIFICATION.(News)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  February 5, 2005 ;   Flynn, Kevin;   787 words ......Churchill with only one-sixty-fourth Indian blood. Nevertheless, the fiery Churchill...Elmwood, Ill., near Peoria, that he has Indian blood, mostly from his mother's side. He claimed...grandmother, Minnie Billington, had some Creek Indian blood. The News found no independent ...

RACIST PLOT ALSO SEEN IN ARTS AND CRAFTS ACT CHURCHILL: 1990 LAW AN EFFORT...

Rocky Mountain News;  June 8, 2005 ;   Berny Morson, Rocky Mountain News;   761 words ......standard. People of less than one-quarter Indian blood were no longer Indians, according to...certifiably' of 'one quarter or more degree of Indian blood by birth,' " Churchill wrote. Although...Indians as people of at least one-half Indian blood. The Dawes Act is, in fact, silent ...

RACIST PLOT ALSO SEEN IN ARTS AND CRAFTS ACT CHURCHILL: 1990 LAW AN EFFORT...

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  June 8, 2005 ;   Morson, Berny;   762 words ......standard. People of less than one-quarter Indian blood were no longer Indians, according to...certifiably' of 'one quarter or more degree of Indian blood by birth,' Churchill wrote. Although...Indians as people of at least one-half Indian blood. The Dawes Act is, in fact, silent on...

Tribal Briefs: Keetowahs plan Easter egg hunt Saturday: Cherokee blood...

Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK);  March 29, 2007 ;     311 words ......applicants for Certificate Degree of Indian Blood cards and Cherokee Nation tribal citizenship...order to obtain a Certificate Degree of Indian Blood card, applicants must provide legal...Cherokee Nation. Officials said quantum of Indian blood is computed from the nearest paternal...

Meet the dull side of Gurney's family.

Newsday (Melville, NY);  August 10, 2006 ;     557 words ......upscale Buffalo before World War II. In Indian Blood, which opened last night at Primary...restlessness and artistic spirit on the Indian blood that supposedly found its way into his...shown so much more about more before. INDIAN BLOOD. By A.R. Gurney, directed by Mark Lamos...

The blood grows thinner: Blood Quantum; Part 2

News From Indian Country;  January 15, 2001 ;   Forbes, Jack D.;   787 words ......Indians can be persons of 1/2 or more Indian blood, even if they are not a member of a...IRA clause by arbitrarily defining "Indian blood" as being only that from a Federally-recogniz...race, to be recognized as having any Indian blood, unless the latter is fully documented...

Federal Indian certification regulations raise concerns

Indian Country Today (Lakota Times);  August 23, 2000 ;   Stockes, Brian;   787 words ......receiving a "Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood" or CDIB. The announcement sparked new...for some to certify that they possess Indian blood, without the need to be listed as a...regulations require some form of proof of Indian blood to qualify for certain programs or services...

New Blood Quantum Regs Causing Worry

The Native Voice;  July 5, 2002 ;   White, Charmaine;   702 words ......he had a certain percentage of Indian blood. But when he went to be enrolled in the tribe, the amount of Indian blood he had was calculated as less...people have miscalculated degrees of Indian blood. The rule that is being changed...

chola

The Oxford American College Dictionary;      31 words ...cho·la / ˈ ch ōlə / • n. a Latin American woman or girl with Indian blood, or the girlfriend of a cholo; a mestiza. ORIGIN: mid 19th cent. : American Spanish (see cholo ).