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Becoming Indian : The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-first Century
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Title
Becoming Indian : The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-first Century / Circe Sturm.
ISBN
9781938645549
1938645545
1934691445
9781934691441
Edition
1st ed.
Publication
Santa Fe : School for Advanced Research Press, 2011.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource (280 pages): maps
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Summary
" ... Racial shifter ... are people who have changed their racial self-identification from non-Indian to Indian on the U.S. census. Many racial shifters are people who, while looking for their roots, have recently discovered their Native American ancestry ..." Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE books annual backfile collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 13, 2023
Series
School for Advanced Research resident scholar series
Contents
Opening
Racial shifters: What lies beneath : hidden histories and racial ghosts ; Racial choices and the specter of whiteness ; Racial conversion and Cherokee neotribalism
Citizen Cherokees: Shifting race, shifting status : citizen Cherokees on "wannabes" ; Documenting descent and other measures of tribal belonging ; States of sovereignty : tribal recognition and the quest for political rights ; Closing
Appendix 1: Self-identified Cherokee organizations
Appendix 2: State-recognized American Indian tribes
Appendix 3: 1828 excerpts from the Cherokee Phoenix
Appendix 4: Mail survey of self-identified Cherokees
Appendix 5: Formal interview data, self-identified and state-recognized Cherokees
Appendix 6: Formal interview data, federally recognized Cherokees.
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