{"id":57585,"date":"2019-02-16T23:26:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T23:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57585"},"modified":"2019-02-16T23:41:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T23:41:23","slug":"self-identification-or-tribal-membership-different-paths-to-your-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57585","title":{"rendered":"Self-identification or tribal membership: Different paths to your heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Self-identification or tribal membership: Different paths to your heritage<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Medill Reports Chicago<\/a>
\nMedill News Service
\n2019-02-12<\/p>\n

Lu Zhao<\/strong><\/a>, News Reporter
\nMedill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nJasmine Gurneau<\/a> made their wedding clothes by herself. \u201cYou have to wear it more than once,\u201d Jasmine said to her husband. The arch behind them represents the four colors of four directions, which was made by Jasmine\u2019s mother, Pam<\/a>. (Provided by Jasmine)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

It was a surprise for the 8-year-old girl when she first learned she is a Native American many years ago. Pamala Silas<\/a> still remembers that day. She had transferred to a new school. Huddling in the chair, sitting beside her younger sister, Pam was introduced by the teacher as an \u201cAmerican Indian.\u201d She couldn\u2019t believe what she heard.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat? Why did she say that?\u201d Pam, in her 50s and proud of her heritage, said she harbored as a child stereotypes of Native Americans that, all too often, people saw on TV. \u201cThey\u2019re all naked and crazy!\u201d<\/p>\n

Pam went home and asked her foster mother why they called her an Indian at school.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, you are,\u201d her foster mother said. She took out an encyclopedia, went to the American Indian section and showed Pam a picture of a man with a headdress on a horse. \u201cYou\u2019re an Indian.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are Menominee<\/a> and you are Oneida<\/a>,\u201d Pam\u2019s older sister said.<\/p>\n

Pam had to write down the tribal names but didn\u2019t even know how to spell them at that time…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Menominee and Oneida are two Native American tribes among 573 federally recognized ones in the U.S. according to a published list from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Each tribe sets its own requirement for tribal membership. Generally speaking, you can only be a member of one tribe even if you meet the qualifications of more than one Native American nation, according to a research paper by Carol N. Nept\u00f4n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,125,8,3015,20],"tags":[29483,3027,5488,29479,29480,29477,14438,29478,29484,29481,29482],"class_list":["post-57585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-carol-n-nepton","tag-chicago","tag-illinois","tag-jasmine-gurneau","tag-lu-zhao","tag-medill-news-service","tag-medill-reports","tag-medill-reports-chicago","tag-pam-silas","tag-pamala-silas","tag-shannon-keller-oloughlin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57585","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=57585"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57589,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57585\/revisions\/57589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}