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

Author
Adams, Mikaëla M. [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Description
xiii, 330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

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    "Indians who remained in the South following removal became a marginalized and anomalous people in an emerging biracial world. Despite the economic hardships and assimilationist pressures they faced, they insisted on their political identity as citizens of tribal nations and rejected Euro-American efforts to reduce them to another racial minority, especially in the face of Jim Crow segregation. Drawing upon their cultural traditions, kinship patterns, and evolving needs to protect their land, resources, and identity from outsiders, southern Indians constructed tribally-specific citizenship criteria, in part by manipulating racial categories - like blood quantum - that were not traditional elements of indigenous cultures. Mikaëla M. Adams investigates how six southern tribes-the Pamunkey Indian Tribe of Virginia, the Catawba Indian Nation of South Carolina, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida-decided who belonged. By focusing on the rights and resources at stake, the effects of state and federal recognition, the influence of kinship systems and racial ideologies, and the process of creating official tribal rolls, Adams reveals how Indians established legal identities."--Publisher description.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-313) and index.
    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 of North Carolina
    • Nation building and self-determination : the Seminole Tribe of Florida and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida
    • Conclusion: Who belongs?
    ISBN
    • 9780190619466 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 0190619465
    LCCN
    2016012095
    OCLC
    945585997
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