American Indian identity : citizenship, membership, and blood

Summary: "This single-volume book contends that reshaping the paradigm of American Indian identity, blood quantum, and racial distinctions can positively impact the future of the Indian community within America and America itself. -- Addresses legal and historical issues about Indian identity and multiple citizenships that have never before been covered in a text -- Sums up the issues, discussion, and proposed solutions to the questions surrounding Indian identity -- Sounds an awakening call to tribal leaders regarding the threat of extermination if they continue to rely on the paradigm of blood quantum instead of citizenship to define Indian identity -- Provides a voice that reaches out to and finds common cause with indigenous brothers and sisters in the world of former British colonies"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781440831461 (hardback)
ISBN: 1440831467 (hardback)
ISBN: 9781440831478 (ebook)
Physical Description: print
xvi, 160 pages ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2016]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- Traditional Indian identity -- Indian identity and the role of the tribal governments today -- The problems of modern Indian identity: intersectionality, the American dream, the myth of scarcity, disenrollment, and belonging -- The rhetoric of Indian identity -- Mascots and cultural appropriation: effects on tribal governments and identity development -- Education: public schools, boarding schools, indigenous scholarship, and ethnic fraud -- Criminal law and Indian identity -- Tribal citizenship and Indian identity -- Replace the paradigm of tribal membership with the paradigm of tribal citizenship -- Conclusion: the journey toward asserting an authentic identity in the twenty-first century for American Indian citizens and their tribal nations.