{"id":24925,"date":"2012-08-23T00:48:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T00:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24925"},"modified":"2016-11-01T00:31:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T00:31:27","slug":"dwanna-l-robertson-indian-identity-still-controversial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24925","title":{"rendered":"Dwanna L. Robertson: Indian Identity Still Controversial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com\/2012\/08\/21\/dwanna-l-robertson-indian-identity-still-controversial-130176\" target=\"_blank\">Dwanna L. Robertson: Indian Identity Still Controversial<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com\" target=\"_blank\">Indian Country Today Media Network<\/a><br \/>\n2012-08-21<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carol Berry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If she\u2019d planned to tackle some of the most contentious issues in Indian country, a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muscogee\" target=\"_blank\">Mvskoke<\/a> (Creek) sociologist couldn\u2019t have done a better job.<\/p>\n<p>Blood quantum, lineal descent, tribal membership, federal recognition, sovereignty\u2014all came under the scrutiny of <a href=\"mailto:dwanna.robertson@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">Dwanna L. Robertson<\/a>, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Massachusetts and contributor to <em>Indian Country Today Media Network<\/em>, who spoke at the American Sociological Association\u2019s (ASA) annual meeting August 17-20 in Denver that drew some 6,000 members.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson addressed the Indigenous Peoples session of the ASA meeting on the topic \u201cA Necessary Evil: Framing an American Indian Legal Identity.\u201d She described interviews with 30 Natives, only half of whom had legal identities in terms of tribal enrollment or other federal validation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNative American people is the only race in America that has to prove that they\u2019re Indian,\u201d she quoted one study participant. \u201cIf you\u2019re black and you say, \u2018I\u2019m black,\u2019 and nobody will question it. If you\u2019re white, you say, \u2018I\u2019m white\u201d and nobody questions it, but if you\u2019re Indian they want to see your CDIB [<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Certificate_of_Degree_of_Indian_Blood\" target=\"_blank\">Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood<\/a>] card. \u2018Well, you say you\u2019re Indian (but) let\u2019s see your card.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com\/2012\/08\/21\/dwanna-l-robertson-indian-identity-still-controversial-130176\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dwanna L. Robertson: Indian Identity Still Controversial Indian Country Today Media Network 2012-08-21 Carol Berry If she\u2019d planned to tackle some of the most contentious issues in Indian country, a Mvskoke (Creek) sociologist couldn\u2019t have done a better job. Blood quantum, lineal descent, tribal membership, federal recognition, sovereignty\u2014all came under the scrutiny of Dwanna L. 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