American Indian identity : citizenship, membership, and blood / Se-ah-dom Edmo, Jessie Young, and Alan Parker ; foreword by Robert J. Miller.
"This single-volume book contends that reshaping the paradigm of American Indian identity, blood quantum, and racial distinctions can positively impact the future of the Indian community within America and America itself. -- Addresses legal and historical issues about Indian identity and multip...
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Santa Barbara, California :
Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC,
[2016]
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| Series: | Native America (Praeger Publishers)
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Traditional Indian identity
- Indian identity and the role of the tribal governments today
- The problems of modern Indian identity: intersectionality, the American dream, the myth of scarcity, disenrollment, and belonging
- The rhetoric of Indian identity
- Mascots and cultural appropriation: effects on tribal governments and identity development
- Education: public schools, boarding schools, indigenous scholarship, and ethnic fraud
- Criminal law and Indian identity
- Tribal citizenship and Indian identity
- Replace the paradigm of tribal membership with the paradigm of tribal citizenship
- Conclusion: the journey toward asserting an authentic identity in the twenty-first century for American Indian citizens and their tribal nations.