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Zusatztext An essential and ongoing conversation about the historical and contemporary challenges to indigenous sovereignty and self-determination."-Brandi Hilton-Hagemann, Reviews in American History Informationen zum Autor Mikaëla M. Adams is an associate professor of history at the University of Mississippi. Klappentext 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 legal identity that went beyond the dominant society's racial definitions of "Indian." Zusammenfassung 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 legal identity that went beyond the dominant society's racial definitions of "Indian." Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Citizenship and Sovereignty Chapter 1: Policing Belonging, Protecting Identity: The Pamunkey Indian Tribe of Virginia Chapter 2: From Fluid Lists to Fixed Rolls: The Catawba Indian Nation of South Carolina Chapter 3: Learning the Language of "Blood": The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Chapter 4: Contests of Sovereignty: The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Chapter 5: Nation Building and Self-Determination: The Seminole Tribe of Florida and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida Conclusion: Who Belongs? Notes Bibliography Index
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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 legal identity that went beyond the dominant society's racial definitions of "Indian."
