Who gets to be Indian? : ethnic fraud, disenrollment, and other difficult conversations about Native American identity / Dina Gilio-Whitaker.

Author/creator Gilio-Whitaker, Dina author.
Format Book
PublicationBoston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2025]
Descriptionxxvii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents A pretendian princess : the curious case of Sacheen Littlefeather -- Indigeneity, nationhood, racialization, and the settler state : why political status matters to Native "identity" formation -- Who's running the show? : Indians in Hollywood and the birth of Native American ethnic fraud -- Indians, hippies, and shamans, oh my! : California and the birth of neo-Indianism -- Kill the Indian to save the per cap : settler capitalism and tribal belonging and unbelonging through disenrollment -- Slippery politics : why claims to Indianness are so common -- The lessons of tricksters : what coyote teaches us.
Abstract "Deeply researched using socio-historical analysis, Gilio-Whitaker offers insights from her own experiences grappling with identity to provide clarity and help readers understand how the commodification of Indianness have ultimately left many people of legitimate American Indian heritage to be disconnected from their tribes"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Gilio-Whitaker, Dina Who gets to be Indian? Boston : Beacon Press, 2025 9780807045091
LCCN 2025026527
ISBN9780807044964
ISBN0807044962 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book

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