| Personal Name |
Schuettpelz, Carrie Lowry, 1984- author.
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| Title Statement |
The Indian card : who gets to be native in America / Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz.
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| Varying Form of Title |
Who gets to be native in America
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Flatiron Books, 2024.
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| Physical Description |
259 pages ; 25 cm
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume rdacarrier
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-248) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Membership -- Belonging -- Counting -- Payment -- Remove -- Separate -- Disconnect -- Identity -- Return.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"A groundbreaking and deeply personal exploration of Tribal enrollment, and what it means to be Native American in the United States "Candid, unflinching....Her thorough excavation of the painful history that gave rise to rigid enrollment policies is a courageous gift to our understanding of contemporary Native life." --The Whiting Foundation Jury. Who is Indian enough? To be Native American is to live in a world of contradictions. At the same time that the number of people in the U.S. who claim Native identity has exploded--increasing 85 percent in just ten years--the number of people formally enrolled in Tribes has not. While the federal government recognizes Tribal sovereignty, being a member of a Tribe requires navigating blood quantum laws and rolls that the federal government created with the intention of wiping out Native people altogether. Over two million Native people are tribally enrolled, yet there are Native people who will never be. Native people who, for a variety of reasons ranging from displacement to disconnection, cannot be card-carrying members of their Tribe. In The Indian Card, Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz grapples with these contradictions. Through in-depth interviews, she shares the stories of people caught in the mire of identity-formation, trying to define themselves outside of bureaucratic processes. With archival research, she pieces together the history of blood quantum and tribal rolls and federal government intrusion on Native identity-making. Reckoning with her own identity--the story of her enrollment and the enrollment of her children--she investigates the cultural, racial, and political dynamics of today's Tribal identity policing. With this intimate perspective of the ongoing fight for Native sovereignty, The Indian Card sheds light on what it looks like to find a deeper sense of belonging"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Schuettpelz, Carrie Lowry, 1984-
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Lowry family.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Indians of North America Legal status, laws, etc.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Indians of North America Ethnic identity.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Lumbee Indians Biography. Iowa
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Lumbee Indians Ethnic identity.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Lumbee Indians Tribal citizenship.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Indians of North America Tribal citizenship.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Iowa Biography.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Autobiographies. lcgft
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