Category: Native Americans/First Nation

  • Blood Quantum Land Laws and the Race versus Political Identity Dilemma California Law Review Volume 96 (2008) pages 801-838 Rose Cuison Villazor, Associate Professor of Law Hofstra University Modern equal protection doctrine treats laws that make distinctions on the basis of indigeneity defined on blood quantum terms along a racial versus political paradigm. This dichotomy…

  • Tribal Rights vs. Racial Justice: Was the Cherokee Nation’s expulsion of black Freedmen an act of tribal sovereignty or of racial discrimination? The New York Times Room for Debate 2011-09-15 Kevin Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University Matthew L. M. Fletcher, Professor of Law Michigan State University Cara Cowan-Watts, Acting Speaker Cherokee Nation Tribal…

  • Phil Wilkes Fixico to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #225-Phil Wilkes Fixico When: Wednesday, 2011-09-14,…

  • A Snug Little Flock: The Social Origins of the Riel Resistance, 1869-70 Watson & Dwyer Publishing, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1991 290 pages ISBN: 0-920486-48-7 Frits Pannekoek, President Athabasca University, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada Questions about the identities of the mixed-blood Indian-European peoples of Canada and the United States have puzzled historians and anthropologists in both countries. Who…

  • “A Race of Mules”: Mixed-Bloods in Western American Fiction The Canadian Journal of Native Studies Volume 15, Number 1 (1995) ISSN  0715-3244 pages 61-74 Brian Hubner The regional literature of the American west includes a wide variety of characters. One character is hard to find, however: the Métis or mixed blood, for these novels lack…

  • Transcultural Transformation: African American and Native American Relations University of Nebraska November 2009 139 pages Barbara S. Tracy A DISSERTATION Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College at the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The intersected lives of African Americans and Native Americans result…

  • The Eastmans and the Luhans: Interracial Marriage between White Women and Native American Men, 1875-1935 Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 23, Number 3 (2002) pages 29-54 DOI: 10.1353/fro.2003.0009 Margaret D. Jacobs, Professor of History & Director, Women’s and Gender Studies University of Nebraska, Lincoln At a lavish wedding and reception in New York…

  • Developing: Supreme Court vacates Freedmen ruling Cherokee Phoenix 2011-08-23 Christina Good Voice, Senior Reporter Tahlequah, Okla. – The Cherokee Nation Supreme Court issued a 16-page ruling Aug. 22 that reversed and vacated the decision of the CN District Court regarding the Cherokee Freedmen, stating that the Cherokee people had the right to amend the CN…

  • Somebody Always Singing You University Press of Mississippi 1997 160 pages ISBN: 0878059814 (9780878059812) Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees The story of a multi-racial woman coming to understand her identity As the child of African-American and Native American parents, Kaylynn TwoTrees grew up hearing herself called “half breed” and “mixed blood,” terms which now, after many transforming…

  • This study was conducted at a tribal college in New Mexico with selected mixed-race participants who identified as Native American, or acknowledged Native American ancestry. At the time of data collection, the school enrollment was 513 students, representing 83 federally recognized tribes and 22 state recognized tribes.