Who belongs? : race, resources, and tribal citizenship in the native South / Mikaëla M. Adams.

Who Belongs? tells the story of how in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, despite economic hardships and assimilationist pressures, six southern tribes insisted on their political identity as citizens of tribal nations and constructed tribally-specific citizenship criteria to establish leg...

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Main Author: Adams, Mikaëla M. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : citizenship and sovereignty
  • Policing belonging, protecting identity : the Pamunkey Indian Tribe of Virginia
  • From fluid lists to fixed rolls : the Catawba Indian Nation of South Carolina
  • Learning the language of "blood" : the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
  • Contests of sovereignty : the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
  • Nation building and self-determination : the Seminole Tribe of Florida and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida.