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From: Debbie Reese <dreese.nambe_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 13:44:55 -0600
Significant to Tim and Eric's books are their tribal nations. Marc referenced disenrollment in one of his emails.
I think I mentioned it then but want to repeat it here.
There are tribal nations who made treaties with the US government, and other governments, too. Those are legal treaties. In TWILIGHT, there's a goofy part where someone in Jacob's family (not a leader of the nation itself) makes a treaty with the vampires. That does NOT happen. Not legally.
So... some tribal nations have treaties that are quite old. They're the oldest of the "federally recognized" tribes. There's some people who are members/citizens of federally recognized tribes who look more white than they do Native (hence my post earlier about skin color not being an appropriate marker for Native identity). Back when the government was drawing up the Dawes Rolls, there was a fair bit of corruption going on because, well... it was land being given away! There are writings about how some people who got allotments were not, in fact, Native, and yet they're on a tribe's census. That, as I understand it, was due to collusion between corrupt white agents and the white men who they worked with. And of course, there's the Freedman.
Historically speaking, some Native communities became fragmented and/or became part of other nations. Some lost their identity as Native communities and then later in time, tried to recover tradition/language and reformulate as a Native tribe. They tried to get recognition from the federal government and failed. It is very political terrain, as you might imagine.
A good case in point is the Miami people who Helen Frost referenced. The Miami Nation of Indiana does not have federal recognition. There is, however, a Miami Nation in Oklahoma that does have federal recognition. The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma is one of three federally recognized Cherokee nations. There are a TON of fake Cherokee tribes out there, and a lot of people are taken in by the fake Cherokee tribes.
Some of you might say "well, that whole thing is a mess, so let's chuck the identity question completely" but I think Tim and Eric and myself, and people who are members/citizens of federally recognized tribes would say otherwise.
All of what I've said above is just a quick overview. If you want to know who the federally recognized tribes are, here's a link: http://bia.gov/cs/groups/public/documents/text/idc1-023762.pdf
And, there's a wealth of info at the website of the National Congress of American Indians. They've got a terrific pdf: http://www.ncai.org/about-tribes
The list itself is fascinating in its, well, diversity!
__________________________________________________________ Debbie Reese, PhD Tribally enrolled: Nambe Pueblo
Email: dreese.nambe_at_gmail.com
Website: American Indians in Children's Literature
_at_ http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.net
Now: Studying for MLIS at San Jose State University Then: Assistant Professor in American Indian Studies, University of Illinois
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 13:44:55 -0600
Significant to Tim and Eric's books are their tribal nations. Marc referenced disenrollment in one of his emails.
I think I mentioned it then but want to repeat it here.
There are tribal nations who made treaties with the US government, and other governments, too. Those are legal treaties. In TWILIGHT, there's a goofy part where someone in Jacob's family (not a leader of the nation itself) makes a treaty with the vampires. That does NOT happen. Not legally.
So... some tribal nations have treaties that are quite old. They're the oldest of the "federally recognized" tribes. There's some people who are members/citizens of federally recognized tribes who look more white than they do Native (hence my post earlier about skin color not being an appropriate marker for Native identity). Back when the government was drawing up the Dawes Rolls, there was a fair bit of corruption going on because, well... it was land being given away! There are writings about how some people who got allotments were not, in fact, Native, and yet they're on a tribe's census. That, as I understand it, was due to collusion between corrupt white agents and the white men who they worked with. And of course, there's the Freedman.
Historically speaking, some Native communities became fragmented and/or became part of other nations. Some lost their identity as Native communities and then later in time, tried to recover tradition/language and reformulate as a Native tribe. They tried to get recognition from the federal government and failed. It is very political terrain, as you might imagine.
A good case in point is the Miami people who Helen Frost referenced. The Miami Nation of Indiana does not have federal recognition. There is, however, a Miami Nation in Oklahoma that does have federal recognition. The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma is one of three federally recognized Cherokee nations. There are a TON of fake Cherokee tribes out there, and a lot of people are taken in by the fake Cherokee tribes.
Some of you might say "well, that whole thing is a mess, so let's chuck the identity question completely" but I think Tim and Eric and myself, and people who are members/citizens of federally recognized tribes would say otherwise.
All of what I've said above is just a quick overview. If you want to know who the federally recognized tribes are, here's a link: http://bia.gov/cs/groups/public/documents/text/idc1-023762.pdf
And, there's a wealth of info at the website of the National Congress of American Indians. They've got a terrific pdf: http://www.ncai.org/about-tribes
The list itself is fascinating in its, well, diversity!
__________________________________________________________ Debbie Reese, PhD Tribally enrolled: Nambe Pueblo
Email: dreese.nambe_at_gmail.com
Website: American Indians in Children's Literature
_at_ http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.net
Now: Studying for MLIS at San Jose State University Then: Assistant Professor in American Indian Studies, University of Illinois
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