Blood Will Tell: Native Americans and Assimilation Policy - Couverture rigide

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Ellinghaus, Katherine

 
9780803225435: Blood Will Tell: Native Americans and Assimilation Policy
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ISBN 10 : 0803225431 ISBN 13 : 9780803225435
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2017

Synopsis

Blood Will Tell reveals the underlying centrality of "blood" that shaped official ideas about who was eligible to be defined as Indian by the General Allotment Act in the United States. Katherine Ellinghaus traces the idea of blood quantum and how the concept came to dominate Native identity and national status between 1887 and 1934 and how related exclusionary policies functioned to dispossess Native people of their land. The U.S. government's unspoken assumption at the time was that Natives of mixed descent were undeserving of tribal status and benefits, notwithstanding that Native Americans of mixed descent played crucial roles in the national implementation of allotment policy.

Ellinghaus explores on-the-ground case studies of Anishinaabeg, Arapahos, Cherokees, Eastern Cherokees, Cheyennes, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, Lakotas, Lumbees, Ojibwes, Seminoles, and Virginia tribes. Documented in these cases, the history of blood quantum as a policy reveals assimilation's implications and legacy. The role of blood quantum is integral to understanding how Native Americans came to be one of the most disadvantaged groups in the United States, and it remains a significant part of present-day debates about Indian identity and tribal membership. Blood Will Tell is an important and timely contribution to current political and scholarly debates.

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À propos de l'auteur

Katherine Ellinghaus has a Hansen Lectureship in History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Taking Assimilation to Heart: Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in Australia and the United States, 1887-1937 (Nebraska, 2006) and coeditor of Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the Construction of Identity.

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803225431
ISBN 13 
9780803225435
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
234
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781496230379: Blood Will Tell: Native Americans and Assimilation Policy

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ISBN 10 :  149623037X ISBN 13 :  9781496230379
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2022
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