{"id":20198,"date":"2012-01-28T06:06:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T06:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20198"},"modified":"2012-01-28T06:06:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T06:06:22","slug":"census-few-among-az%e2%80%99s-tribes-claim-to-be-multiracial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20198","title":{"rendered":"Census: Few among Az\u2019s tribes claim to be multiracial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tucsonsentinel.com\/local\/report\/012612_az_census_tribes\/census-few-among-azs-tribes-claim-multiracial\/\" target=\"_blank\">Census: Few among Az\u2019s tribes claim to be multiracial<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tucsonsentinel.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tucson Sentinel<\/a><br \/>\n2012-01-26<\/p>\n<p><strong>Victoria Pelham<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Cronkite News Service<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 The number of American Indians who claimed to be multiracial jumped sharply over the last decade, but not so much in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arizona\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona<\/a>, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The bureau said the total number of American Indian or Alaska Natives grew from 4.1 million in 2000 to 5.2 million in 2010, a 27 percent increase. Of those, 2.3 million people, or 44 percent of the total, claimed to be Indian and at least one other race, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>But Arizona saw relatively higher numbers of people claiming to be Indian only.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a common trend in the state of Arizona that is different from other states,\u201d said Mellor Willie, executive director of the National American Indian Housing Council.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat will definitely have an effect when you\u2019re working with raw federal policy that has to meet the needs of all Indian people,\u201d Willie said. \u201cTribes have to take that into consideration, especially the tribes in Arizona.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Census Bureau said the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Navajo_Nation\" target=\"_blank\">Navajo Nation<\/a>, which has a significant presence in Arizona, had the largest number of single-race members of any tribal group in the country, with 287,000 of the tribe\u2019s 332,129 people claiming to be single-race. That means just 13 percent of Navajo claim to be multiracial&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tucsonsentinel.com\/local\/report\/012612_az_census_tribes\/census-few-among-azs-tribes-claim-multiracial\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Census: Few among Az\u2019s tribes claim to be multiracial Tucson Sentinel 2012-01-26 Victoria Pelham Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON \u2013 The number of American Indians who claimed to be multiracial jumped sharply over the last decade, but not so much in Arizona, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday. The bureau said the total number of American Indian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,3015,20],"tags":[5202,9409,9408],"class_list":["post-20198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-arizona","tag-tucson-sentinel","tag-victoria-pelham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20198","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=20198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}