Real Indians : identity and the survival of Native America / / Eva Marie Garroutte

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910962925003321
• Autore: Garroutte Eva Marie <1962->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003
• ISBN: 9786612762529; 9780520935921; 0520935926; 9781282762527; 1282762524; 9781597348522; 159734852X; 9781417520459; 1417520450
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.897
• Soggetti: Indians of North America - Ethnic identity; Indians of North America - Tribal citizenship; Indians of North America - Legal status, laws, etc; Identification (Psychology); Self-determination, National - United States
• 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 (p. 201-212) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Chief Who Never Was -- 1. Enrollees and Outalucks: Law -- 2. "If He Gets a Nosebleed, He'll Turn into a White Man": Biology -- 3. What If My Grandma Eats Big Macs? Culture -- 4. If You're Indian and You Know It (but Others Don't): Self-Identification -- 5. "Whaddaya Mean 'We,' White Man?": Identity ConXicts and a Radical Indigenism -- 6. Allowing the Ancestors to Speak: Radical Indigenism and New/Old Definitions of Identity -- Conclusion: Long Lance's Ghost and the Spirit of Future Scholarship -- Appendix -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with which individuals can be classified (as embodied, for instance, in previous U.S. census categories) has been eroded. In its place are shifting paradigms and new norms for racial identity. Eva Marie Garroutte examines the changing processes of racial identification and their implications by looking specifically at the case of American Indians.