{"id":20153,"date":"2012-01-26T02:16:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T02:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20153"},"modified":"2012-01-26T02:16:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T02:16:05","slug":"census-releases-data-on-american-indian-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20153","title":{"rendered":"Census releases data on American Indian population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2012\/01\/25\/2608279\/census-releases-data-on-american.html\" target=\"_blank\">Census releases data on American Indian population<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Herald<\/a><br \/>\n2012-01-25<\/p>\n<p><strong>Felicia Fonseca<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n<p>FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. &#8212; Almost half of American Indians and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alaska_Natives\" target=\"_blank\">Alaska Natives<\/a> identify with multiple races, representing a group that grew by 39 percent over a decade, according to U.S. Census data released Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 5.2 million people counted as Natives in 2010, nearly 2.3 million reported being Native in combination with one or more of six other race categories, showcasing a growing diversity among Natives. Those who added black, white or both as a personal identifier made up 84 percent of the multi-racial group.<\/p>\n<p>Tribal officials and organizations look to Census data for funding, to plan communities, to foster solidarity among tribes and for accountability from federal agencies that have a trust responsibility with tribal members.<\/p>\n<p>The bump in the multi-racial group from 1.6 million in 2000 to nearly 2.3 million in 2010 was higher than that of those who reported being solely of Native descent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blackfeet_Indian_Reservation\" target=\"_blank\">The Blackfeet Nation<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montana\" target=\"_blank\">Montana<\/a> had the highest proportion of people who reported being part of more than one racial group or tribe at 74 percent. Among Alaska Native groups, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haida_people\" target=\"_blank\">Tlingit-Haida<\/a> had the highest proportion of mixed-race Natives at 42 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The number of Natives identifying with at least one other race increased in all but three states from 2000 to 2010, according to the Census&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2012\/01\/25\/2608279\/census-releases-data-on-american.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Census releases data on American Indian population Miami Herald 2012-01-25 Felicia Fonseca Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. &#8212; Almost half of American Indians and Alaska Natives identify with multiple races, representing a group that grew by 39 percent over a decade, according to U.S. Census data released Wednesday. Of the 5.2 million people counted as Natives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,3015,6,20],"tags":[9377,6470],"class_list":["post-20153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-native-americans","category-new-media","category-usa","tag-felicia-fonseca","tag-miami-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}