cultural identity

Redefining Tigua Citizenship

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The materials in this informational guide are designed to provide you with important background information ”such as Tigua history, tribal population profiles, and fiscal impacts” related to upcoming membership criteria changes. Project Tiwahu is an Ysleta del Sur Pueblo-wide initiative to reclaim its membership determination, thus bringing the tribe into an era of true self-governance...

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Ysleta del Sur Pueblo. "Redefining Tigua Citizenship." Project Tiwahu Informational Guide. Ysleta del Sur Pueblo. Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, Texas. 2014. Guide. (https://hwpi.harvard.edu/files/hpaied/files/projecttiwahu-final.pdf?m=1639579190, accessed June 7, 2023)

Declaration of Tsawwassen Identity & Nationhood

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We are Tsawwassen People "People facing the sea", descendants of our ancestors who exercised sovereign authority over our land for thousands of years. Tsawwassen People were governed under the advice and guidance of leaders, highborn women, headmen, and speakers through countless generations...

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Tsawwassen First Nation. Declaration of Tsawwassen Identity & Nationhood. Tsawwassen First Nation. Tsawwassen, British Columbia, Canada. 2009. (http://www.tsawwassenfirstnation.com/pdfs/TFN-About/TFN-Vision-and-Manda..., accessed April 3, 2023)

Navajo Cultural Identity: What can the Navajo Nation bring to the American Indian Identity Discussion Table?

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American Indian identity in the twenty-first century has become an engaging topic. Recently, discussions on Ward Churchill’s racial background became a “hotbed” issue on the national scene. A few Native nations, such as the Pechanga and Isleta Pueblo, have disenrolled members. Scholars such as Circe Sturm, in Blood Politics: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and Eva Marie Garroutte, in Real Indians: Identity and Survival of Native America, have examined American Indian identity. More attention is being devoted to understanding the implications of racial identity in Native nations. What have we learned from these studies? We have learned that an imposed enrollment system has impacted Native nations...

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Lee, Lloyd L. "Navajo Cultural Identity: What can the Navajo Nation bring to the American Indian Identity Discussion Table?" Wicazo Sa Review. Fall 2006. Paper. (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/206347, accessed November 8, 2013) 

An Anishinaabe Tribalography: Investigating and Interweaving Conceptions of Identity During the 1910s on the White Earth Reservation

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This article explores the varied ways in which the Anishinaabeg of White Earth defined themselves during the early twentieth century. It consists of two primary parts. In part 1 I go beyond the artifacts in order to enliven the history, to offer an alternative way of remembering the past.  In this section I have created several characters and collapsed events, but I draw heavily on historical interviews. I use many direct quotes in the interview section; all the statements that I have copied word for word from a document in the Ransom Judd Powell Papers have been italicized. It is my goal to immerse the reader in a story that extends beyond history. This section also includes historical photographs that provide an additional element of framework for the construction of the tribalography. The subheadings in part 1 are taken from A Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe by John D. Nichols and Earl Nyholm. In part 2 I provide a traditional academic presentation of the “facts,” including details about federal and state legislation as well as an academic analysis of the interviews. The two parts of this story create a weaving;  by pulling together a wide variety of sources, including primary documents, secondary sources, and the works of other storytellers, I have tried to create something new...

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Doerfler, Jill. "An Anishinaabe Tribalography: Investigating and Interweaving Conceptions of Identity During the 1910s on the White Earth Reservation." American Indian Quarterly. Volume 33:3. Summer 2009. Article. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/40388467, accessed March 1, 2023)