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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460442703321

Autore

Doerfler Jill

Titolo

Those who belong : identity, family, blood, and citizenship among the White Earth Anishinaabeg / / Jill Doerfler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-62895-229-6

1-60917-457-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

American Indian Studies Series

Disciplina

971.312

Soggetti

Ojibwa Indians - Politics and government - Minnesota

Indians of North America - Minnesota - Politics and government

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. No, No There Was No Mixed-Bloods: Mapping Anishinaabe Conceptions of Identity; Chapter 2. Consider the Relationship: Citizenship Regulations of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe; Chapter 3. It is Time to Take Our Own Leadership: The Constitution of the White Earth Nation; Conclusion; Appendix 1. Revised Constitution and Bylaws of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota; Appendix 2. The Constitution of the White Earth Nation; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Despite the central role blood quantum played in political formations of American Indian identity in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there are few studies that explore how tribal nations have contended with this transformation of tribal citizenship. Those Who Belong explores how White Earth Anishinaabeg understood identity and blood quantum in the early twentieth century, how it was employed and manipulated by the U.S. government, how it came to be the sole requirement for tribal citizenship in 1961, and how a contemporary effort for constitutional reform sought a return to citiz