Book Description
Compares the experiences of three central Louisiana Indian tribes with federal tribal recognition policy to illuminate the complex relationship between recognition policy and American Indian racial and tribal identities.
Author : Brian Klopotek
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 31,66 MB
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0822349841
Compares the experiences of three central Louisiana Indian tribes with federal tribal recognition policy to illuminate the complex relationship between recognition policy and American Indian racial and tribal identities.
Author : Amy E. Den Ouden
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 22,26 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1469602156
Recognition, Sovereignty Struggles, and Indigenous Rights in the United States: A Sourcebook
Author : Mark Edwin Miller
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 080615053X
Who counts as an American Indian? Which groups qualify as Indian tribes? These questions have become increasingly complex in the past several decades, and federal legislation and the rise of tribal-owned casinos have raised the stakes in the ongoing debate. In this revealing study, historian Mark Edwin Miller describes how and why dozens of previously unrecognized tribal groups in the southeastern states have sought, and sometimes won, recognition, often to the dismay of the Five Tribes—the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles. Miller explains how politics, economics, and such slippery issues as tribal and racial identity drive the conflicts between federally recognized tribal entities like the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and other groups such as the Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy that also seek sovereignty. Battles over which groups can claim authentic Indian identity are fought both within the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Federal Acknowledgment Process and in Atlanta, Montgomery, and other capitals where legislators grant state recognition to Indian-identifying enclaves without consulting federally recognized tribes with similar names. Miller’s analysis recognizes the arguments on all sides—both the scholars and activists who see tribal affiliation as an individual choice, and the tribal governments that view unrecognized tribes as fraudulent. Groups such as the Lumbees, the Lower Muscogee Creeks, and the Mowa Choctaws, inspired by the civil rights movement and the War on Poverty, have evolved in surprising ways, as have traditional tribal governments. Describing the significance of casino gambling, the leader of one unrecognized group said, “It’s no longer a matter of red; it’s a matter of green.” Either a positive or a negative development, depending on who is telling the story, the casinos’ economic impact has clouded what were previously issues purely of law, ethics, and justice. Drawing on both documents and personal interviews, Miller unravels the tangled politics of Indian identity and sovereignty. His lively, clearly argued book will be vital reading for tribal leaders, policy makers, and scholars.
Author : Mark Edwin Miller
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 34,12 MB
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803204096
First book-length overview of the Federal Acknowledgment Process enacted in 1978, the legal mechanism whereby native groups achieve official "recognition" of tribal status.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Indian Affairs and Public Lands
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 22,79 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- )
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- )
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 39,62 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- )
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Disclosure of information
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- )
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,91 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Disclosure of information
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Native American Affairs
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 21,78 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Law
ISBN :
Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.