Becoming Indian : the struggle over Cherokee identity in the twenty-first century / Circe Sturm.

Author/creator Sturm, Circe, 1967-
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoSanta Fe : School for Advanced Research Press, 2011.
Descriptionxii, 262 pages : maps ; 26 cm.
Subjects

SeriesSchool for Advanced Research resident scholar series
School for Advanced Research resident scholar series. ^A1060436
Contents Opening -- What lies beneath: hidden histories and racial ghosts -- Racial choices and the specter of whiteness -- Racial conversion and Cherokee neotribalism -- Shifting race, shifting status: citizen Cherokees on "wannabes" -- Documenting descent and other measures of tribal belonging -- States of sovereignty: tribal recognition and the quest for political rights -- Closing.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 235-249) and index.
LCCN 2010042355
ISBN9781934691441 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1934691445 (pbk. : alk. paper)