Category: Native Americans/First Nation

  • Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America Duke University Press 2009 320 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4401-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4420-9 Edited by: Matthew D. O’Hara, Assistant Professor of History University of California, Santa Cruz Andrew Fisher, Associate Professor of History Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota In colonial Latin America, social identity did not correlate neatly with…

  • Forgotten Tribes: Unrecognized Indians and the Federal Acknowledgment Process University of Nebraska Press 2004 355 pages paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-8321-3 hardback ISBN: 978-0-8032-3226-6 Mark Edwin Miller, Associate Professor of History Southern Utah University The Federal Acknowledgment Process (FAP) is one of the most important and contentious issues facing Native Americans today. A complicated system of criteria…

  • “So what are you…?”: Life as a Mixed-Blood in Academia The American Indian Quarterly Volume 27, Numbers 1 & 2 (Winter/Spring 2003) pages 369-372 E-ISSN: 1534-1828 Print ISSN: 0095-182X DOI: 10.1353/aiq.2004.0038 Julie Pelletier, Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies and Director of the Aboriginal Governance Program University of Winnepeg My mentor, Loudell Snow, and I were…

  • The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism University of Minnesota Press 2008 272 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5005-7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-5004-0 Estelle Tarica, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture University of California, Berkeley The only recent English-language work on Spanish-American indigenismo from a literary perspective, Estelle Tarica’s work shows how modern Mexican…

  • Stuck at the border of the reserve: Self-identity and authentic identity amongst mixed race First Nations women University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada January 2010 330 pages Publication Number: AAT NR64501 ISBN: 9780494645017 Jaime Mishibinijima Miller A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of Graduate Studies of The University of Guelph by for the degree of…

  • The American Race Semi-Weekly Dispatch Franklin County, Virginia 1861-05-17 page 1, Column 3 Source: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library Summary: Reasons that America’s population has increased by one-third in the past ten years because of the intermarriage in the United States of the races of Celts, Teutons, Anglo-Saxons,…

  • Doctor’s quest to engineer a “master race” in the early 1900s still hurting Virginia’s Indian tribes WTVR-CBS 6 TV Richmond, Virginia 2011-07-12 Mark Holmberg, Staff reporter RICHMOND— Richmond’s famous Hollywood Cemetery serves as the final resting place of presidents, statesmen and generals. Few have had the impact of Dr. Walter Plecker. His stormy legacy continues…

  • Full Blood, Mixed Blood, Generic, and Ersatz: The Problem of Indian Identity Arizona and the West Volume 27, Number 4 (Winter, 1985) pages 309-326 William T. Hagan, Professor Emeritus of History State University of New York, Fredonia University of Oklahoma One of the most perplexing problems confronting American Indians today is that of identity. Who…

  • Playwright discusses biracialism The Dartmouth 2006-01-18 Ashley Zuzek, The Dartmouth Staff William S. Yellow Robe, Jr., author of the play “Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers,” discussed the psychology of racial duality during a Tuesday night discussion at the Hopkins Center and emphasized the need for Americans of mixed blood to identify with a single race…

  • Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers and Other Untold Stories UCLA American Indian Studies Center 2009 375 pages 10-digit ISBN: 0-935626-59-X 13-digit ISBN: 978-0-935626-59-9 William S. Yellow Robe Jr., Playwright, Director, Poet, Actor, Writer, and Educator Edited by: Margo Lukens, Associate Professor of English University of Maine Five Plays by William S. Yellow Robe Jr. This…