{"id":24981,"date":"2012-08-26T20:51:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T20:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24981"},"modified":"2016-11-01T00:31:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T00:31:08","slug":"native-american-people-is-the-only-race-in-america-that-has-to-prove-that-they%e2%80%99re-indian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24981","title":{"rendered":"Native American people is the only race in America that has to prove that they\u2019re Indian&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cNative American people is the only race in America that has to prove that they\u2019re Indian,\u201d she [<a href=\"mailto:dwanna.robertson@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">Dwanna L. Robertson<\/a>] 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\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Carol Berry, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=24925\" target=\"_blank\">Dwanna L. Robertson: Indian Identity Still Controversial<\/a>,\u201d <em>Indian Country Today Media Network<\/em>, (August 28, 2012). <a href=\"http:\/\/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com\/2012\/08\/21\/dwanna-l-robertson-indian-identity-still-controversial-130176\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com\/2012\/08\/21\/dwanna-l-robertson-indian-identity-still-controversial-130176<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNative American people is the only race in America that has to prove that they\u2019re Indian,\u201d she [Dwanna L. Robertson] 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11614,11615,11616,10991],"class_list":["post-24981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-carol-berry","tag-dwanna-l-robertson","tag-dwanna-robertson","tag-indian-country-today-media-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24981","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=24981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49705,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24981\/revisions\/49705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}