Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and index
Contents:
Introduction: The Chief Who Never Was -- 1. Enrollees and Outalucks: Law -- 2. "If He Gets a Nosebleed, He'll Turn into a White Man": Biology -- 3. What If My Grandma Eats Big Macs? Culture -- 4. If You're Indian and You Know It (but Others Don't): Self-Identification -- 5. "Whatddaya Mean 'We, ' White Man?": Identity Conflicts and a Radical Indigenism -- 6. Allowing the Ancestors to Speak: Radical Indigenism and New/Old Definitions of Identity -- Conclusion: Long Lance's Ghost and the Spirit of Future Scholarship
Summary:
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with which individuals can be classified (as embodied, for instance, in previous U.S. census categories) has been eroded