lifeblood: songs: background: blood quantum

amy ray quote from 12/19/1996: the indigo girls - music group's involvement with politics, the progressive:

"we also wrote together for the first time, the song 'blood quantum' on the honor cd. it was easy because we were united in the experience."

emily saliers quote from 4/4/1997: transcription, kwva - eugene, oregon:

"we wrote a song together recently that was on the honor cd, that amy put out on daemon records which benefits a lot of native american grassroots groups, environmental groups and other grassroots community groups, the song is called blood quantum. amy started it and i kinda finished it, but even so it was like her part and then my part."