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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792296803321

Titolo

Recognition, sovereignty struggles, & Indigenous rights in the United States [[electronic resource] ] : a sourcebook / / edited by Amy E. Den Ouden & Jean M. O'Brien

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2013

ISBN

1-4696-0216-4

1-4696-0809-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Den OudenAmy E

O'BrienJean M

Disciplina

342.7308/72

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Civil rights

Indians of North America - Government relations

Indians of North America - Legal status, laws, etc

Indigenous peoples - Legal status, laws, etc - United States

States' rights (American politics)

United States Race relations

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

Cover; Contents; Introduction; PART I: Race, Identity, and Recognition; The Imposition of Law: The Federal Acknowledgment Process and the Legal De/Construction of Tribal Identity; Racial Science and Federal Recognition: Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South; The Recognition of NAGPRA: A Human Rights Promise Deferred; State Recognition of American Indian Tribes: A Survey of State-Recognized Tribes and State Recognition Processes; PART II: State and Federal Recognition in New England; State Recognition and "Termination" in Nineteenth-Century New England

Altered State?: Indian Policy Narratives, Federal Recognition, and the "New" War on Native Rights in ConnecticutHow You See Us, Why You Don't: Connecticut's Public Policy to Terminate the Schaghticoke Indians; The Nipmuc Nation, Federal Acknowledgment, and a Case of Mistaken Identity; PART III: Contemporary Recognition Controversies; A Right Delayed: The Brothertown Indian Nation's Story of Surviving the



Federal Acknowledgment Process; From "Boston Men" to the BIA: The Unacknowledged Chinook Nation

Mapping Erasure: The Power of Nominative Cartography in the Past and Present of the Muwekma Ohlones of the San Francisco Bay AreaPrecarious Positions: Native Hawaiians and U.S. Federal Recognition; Afterword; Appendix: Useful Resources for Further Study; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

This engaging collection surveys and clarifies the complex issue of federal and state recognition for Native American tribal nations in the United States. Den Ouden and O'Brien gather focused and teachable essays on key topics, debates, and case studies. Written by leading scholars in the field, including historians, anthropologists, legal scholars, and political scientists, the essays cover the history of recognition, focus on recent legal and cultural processes, and examine contemporary recognition struggles nationwide. Contributors are Joanne Barker (Lenape), Kathleen A. Brown-Perez (Brothe