{"id":46917,"date":"2016-05-11T14:35:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T14:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46917"},"modified":"2016-05-11T14:35:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T14:35:07","slug":"who-gets-to-be-native-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46917","title":{"rendered":"Who gets to be Native American?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/279637\/white-people-claiming-native-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Who gets to be Native American?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\" target=\"_blank\">Fusion<\/a><br \/>\n2016-03-11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/annapulley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Anna Pulley<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cInhumane.\u201d \u201cDishonorable.\u201d \u201cGenocide.\u201d These were just a few of the dozens of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sharpie_(marker)\" target=\"_blank\">Sharpied<\/a> comments written on the hands of indigenous activists recently, as they launched a grassroots, social-media movement against tribal disenrollment, which is when a tribal government throws out its own members. The campaign, <a href=\"http:\/\/stopdisenrollment.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\">#StopDisenrollment<\/a>, is aimed at, well, stopping disenrollment, by gathering people\u2019s stories and asking activists to post pictures of what disenrollment means to them.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, tribal disenrollment has become increasingly routine. An Indian may be thrown out due to a clan rivalry or political in-fighting, or when a tribe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/13\/us\/california-indian-tribes-eject-thousands-of-members.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">trims members<\/a> to consolidate casino revenues. Losing one\u2019s tribal enrollment often means losing jobs, housing, educational benefits, and social services. It also means grappling with the identity <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/mindfuck\" target=\"_blank\">mindfuck<\/a> of being told: \u201cYou\u2019re no longer an Indian in the eyes of the federal government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, people like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/06\/30\/meet-the-native-american-rachel-dolezal.html\" target=\"_blank\">Andrea Smith<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/easterneronline.com\/35006\/eagle-life\/a-life-to-be-heard\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Dolezal<\/a> have claimed a Native identity as their own, echoing generations of white people before them. Even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2012\/05\/is-elizabeth-warren-native-american-or-what\/257415\/\" target=\"_blank\">Senator Elizabeth Warren<\/a> has claimed a Native identity because of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/2012\/05\/01\/warren-native-american\" target=\"_blank\">family stories<\/a>\u201d about her <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cherokee\" target=\"_blank\">Cherokee<\/a> roots. A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewsocialtrends.org\/2015\/06\/11\/multiracial-in-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research Center study<\/a> showed that fully half of all U.S. adults who claimed a multiracial identity said they were white and American Indian. That\u2019s 8.5 million people&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/279637\/white-people-claiming-native-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who gets to be Native American? Fusion 2016-03-11 Anna Pulley \u201cInhumane.\u201d \u201cDishonorable.\u201d \u201cGenocide.\u201d These were just a few of the dozens of Sharpied comments written on the hands of indigenous activists recently, as they launched a grassroots, social-media movement against tribal disenrollment, which is when a tribal government throws out its own members. The campaign, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,3015,20],"tags":[23752,19052],"class_list":["post-46917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-anna-pulley","tag-fusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46917","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=46917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46918,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46917\/revisions\/46918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}