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

Edition First edition Published Santa Fe : School for Advanced Research Press, 2011

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Description xii, 262 pages : maps ; 26 cm Contents Machine generated contents note: 1.Opening -- pt. One Racial Shifters -- 2.What Lies Beneath: Hidden Histories and Racial Ghosts -- 3.Racial Choices and the Specter of Whiteness -- 4.Racial Conversion and Cherokee Neotribalism -- pt. Two Citizen Cherokees -- 5.Shifting Race, Shifting Status: Citizen Cherokees on "Wannabes" -- 6.Documenting Descent and Other Measures of Tribal Belonging -- 7.States of Sovereignty: Tribal Recognition and the Quest for Political Rights -- 8.Closing Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-249) and index Subject Cherokee Indians -- Ethnic identity. Cherokee Indians -- Mixed descent. Cherokee Indians -- Politics and government. Self-determination, National -- Oklahoma. Tribal government -- Oklahoma. SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410 United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 LC no. 2010042355 ISBN 9781934691441 (paperback: alk. paper)

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