Becoming Indian : the struggle over Cherokee identity in the twenty-first century

Becoming Indian : the struggle over Cherokee identity in the twenty-first century /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sturm, Circe, 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Santa Fe : School for Advanced Research Press, 2011.
Edition:First edition.
Series:School for Advanced Research resident scholar series.
Subjects:
Cherokee Indians > Ethnic identity.
Cherokee Indians > Mixed descent.
Cherokee Indians > Politics and government.
Tribal government > Oklahoma.
Self-determination, National > Oklahoma.
Cherokee (North American people) > Ethnic identity.
Cherokee (North American people) > Mixed descent.
Cherokee (North American people) > Politics and government.
Cherokee Indians.
Tribal government.
Self-determination, National.
Race relations.
Politics and government.
United States > Race relations.
United States > Politics and government.
Oklahoma.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Opening
  • Part 1: Racial shifters
  • What lies beneath: hidden histories and racial ghosts
  • Racial choices and the specter of whiteness
  • Racial conversion and Cherokee neotribalism
  • Part 2: 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.

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