Category: Native Americans/First Nation

  • Blacks, Black Indians, Afromexicans: the Dynamics of Race, Nation, and Identity in a Mexican Moreno Community (Guerrero) American Ethnologist Volume 27, Issue 4, November 2000 pages 898–626 DOI: 10.1525/ae.2000.27.4.898 Laura A. Lewis, Professor of Anthropology James Madison University In this article, I explore identity formation in Mexico from the perspective of residents of San Nicolás…

  • This is Not a Biography: Pauline Johnson and the Process of National Identity Canadian Poetry Volume 48 (Spring/Summer 2001) Shelley Hulan, Associate Professor of English University of Waterloo, Canada Carole Gerson and Veronica Strong-Boag. Paddling Her Own Canoe: the Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson–Tekahionwake. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2000. 331 pp. Anyone…

  • Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) University of Toronto Press June 2000 354 pages Paper ISBN: 9780802080240 Cloth ISBN: 9780802041623 Veronica Strong-Boag, Professor of Women’s History University of British Columbia Carole Gerson, Professor of English Royal Society of Canada at Simon Fraser University Winner of the Raymond Klibansky…

  • Métis identity matters Winnipeg Free Press 2011-02-09 Editorial The question of Métis identity has befuddled Canadians, governments and the courts ever since Louis Riel occupied Upper Fort Garry in 1869 and established a provisional government. Just who were these troublemakers, who had their own language, customs and practices, and who now claimed territorial rights? Well,…

  • Race and American Indian Tribal Nationhood February 2009 44 pages Matthew L. M. Fletcher, Professor of Law & Director of the Indigenous Law & Policy Center Michigan State University Forthcoming in a 2011 University of Wyoming Law Review issue. American Indian tribes and nations are at a crossroads. One on hand, many tribes like the Cherokee…

  • A Race or a Nation? Cherokee National Identity and the Status of Freedmen’s Descendents bepress Legal Series Working Paper 1570 2006-08-17 72 pages S. Alan Ray, President Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois The Cherokee Nation today faces the challenge of determining its citizenship criteria in the context of race. The article focuses on the Cherokee Freedmen.…

  • Blood Quantum, Race, and Identity in Indian Country January 2011 32 pages Sarah Montana Hart, Judicial Clerk Magistrate Judge Carolyn Ostby Federal District Court for the District of Montana This article discusses how blood quantum laws affect racism and other relations between Indian nations and the United States. 1. Introduction Throughout the history of our…

  • None of the Above Filmakers Library (an imprint of Alexander Street Press) 1994 23 minutes Erika Surat Andersen University of Southern California None of the Above is a documentary about people of mixed racial heritage based on the filmmaker’s own search for identity and community. Ms. Andersen, whose mother is (Asian) Indian and father is…

  • AIS 350 : Black-Indians in the Americas San Francisco State University Fall 2011 In this course students will be introduced to some of the major sociological and historical factors that have given rise to multiracial cultural identities in American Indian communities throughout the Americas and the Caribbean with a specific focus on Black-Indians within American…

  • Are You an Indian? Public Broadcasting Service Independent Lens Premiere Date: 2011-11-17 Duration: 00:05:25 Though their ethnicities are mixed, the Wampanoag take pride in their tribal heritage. In this companion piece to the documentary film We Still Live Here—Âs Nutayuneân, Wampanoag tribal members discuss how their multicultural heritage both complicates and enriches their identities as…