Becoming Indian : the struggle over Cherokee identity in the twenty-first century / Circe Sturm.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sturm, Circe, 1967-
Language:English
Published: Santa Fe : School for Advanced Research Press, 2011 [©2010]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Cherokee people > Ethnic identity.
Cherokee people > Mixed descent.
Cherokee people > Politics and government.
Tribal government > Oklahoma.
Self-determination, National > Oklahoma.
United States > Race relations.
United States > Politics and government.
Physical Description:xii, 262 pages : maps ; 26 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Opening
  • What lies beneath: hidden histories and racial ghosts
  • Racial choices and the specter of whiteness
  • Racial conversion and Cherokee neotribalism
  • 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.