{"id":52263,"date":"2017-03-09T19:44:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T19:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52263"},"modified":"2017-03-09T19:44:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T19:44:35","slug":"as-a-black-native-american-arizona-woman-had-to-prove-she-was-native-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52263","title":{"rendered":"As A Black Native American, Arizona Woman Had To Prove She Was ‘Native Enough’"},"content":{"rendered":"

As A Black Native American, Arizona Woman Had To Prove She Was ‘Native Enough’<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

KJZZ 91.5 FM<\/a>
\nPhoenix, Arizona
\n2017-03-06<\/p>\n

Naomi Gingold<\/strong><\/a>, Weekend Morning Host<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nRoicia Banks<\/a> with her mom on the day she graduated from her master’s program. Today Banks is confident in her self-identity, proudly African-American and Native American.
\n(Photo courtesy of Roicia Banks)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Roicia Banks<\/a> went to graduate school in Texas<\/a>, and when she was there, people said to her, \u201cNatives still are alive?\u201d<\/p>\n

Natives, as in Native Americans.<\/p>\n

Laughing, she continued, \u201cAre you kidding me? Yes, we’re alive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Banks, who is from Arizona<\/a>, is undeniably a modern American woman. She is also Native American.<\/p>\n

And although \u2014 until the Dakota Access Pipeline protests<\/a> \u2014 Native Americans as a modern people rarely graced the national headlines or broke into the modern American psyche, many do lead lives, on and off reservations.<\/p>\n

Banks grew up primarily on a reservation. She\u2019s culturally Hopi<\/a> and registered in a tribe \u2014 just a different one than her adopted family. But although she was entirely brought up in Hopi culture, even on the reservation, there were times where she was treated as if she didn\u2019t belong…<\/p>\n

Read the entire story here<\/a>. Listen to the story (00:03:37) here<\/a>. Download the story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roicia Banks went to graduate school in Texas, and when she was there, people said to her, \u201cNatives still are alive?\u201d<\/p>\n

Natives, as in Native Americans.<\/p>\n

Laughing, she continued, \u201cAre you kidding me? Yes, we’re alive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,2850,125,8,3015,20],"tags":[5202,26386,26388,26384,26385,26387],"class_list":["post-52263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-audio","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-arizona","tag-hopi","tag-kjzz","tag-kjzz-91-5-fm","tag-naomi-gingold","tag-roicia-banks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52263","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=52263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52264,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52263\/revisions\/52264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}