Becoming Indian : the struggle over Cherokee identity in the twenty-first century
" ... Racial shifter ... are people who have changed their racial self-identification from non-Indian to Indian on the U.S. census. Many racial shifters are people who, while looking for their roots, have recently discovered their Native American ancestry ..." Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, 2011
School for Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe, 2011
xii, 262 pages : maps ; 26 cm.
9781934691441, 1934691445
671541010
Opening
Racial shifters: What lies beneath : hidden histories and racial ghosts ; Racial choices and the specter of whiteness ; Racial conversion and Cherokee neotribalism
Citizen Cherokees: Shifting race, shifting status : citizen Cherokees on "wannabes" ; Documenting descent and other measures of tribal belonging ; States of sovereignty : tribal recognition and the quest for political rights ; Closing
Appendix 1: Self-identified Cherokee organizations
Appendix 2: State-recognized American Indian tribes
Appendix 3: 1828 excerpts from the Cherokee Phoenix
Appendix 4: Mail survey of self-identified Cherokees
Appendix 5: Formal interview data, self-identified and state-recognized Cherokees
Appendix 6: Formal interview data, federally recognized Cherokees