Who Gets to Be Indian? Ethnic Fraud, Disenrollment, and Other Difficult Conversations about Native American Identity Shawnee reservation Indians and urban Indians

reservation Indians and urban Indians

and their culture from precontact times to the present

This work shows how counter-mapping projects both on the ground and in the skies reclaim space in the Great Lakes region--Neshnabé homelands--and are part of larger constellations of Indigenous futurities and stories of survivance

For decades

captures the imagination but also serves to paper over the seizure of homeland from First Peoples and the laying bare of America's northern forests

Who Gets to Be Indian? Ethnic Fraud, Disenrollment, and Other Difficult Conversations about Native American Identity Shawnee reservation Indians and urban IndiansAn investigation into how Native American identity became a commodity, from cultural appropriation to ethnic fraud to disenrollment. Settler capitalism has been so effective that the very identities of Indigenous people have been usurped, misconstrued, and weaponized. In Who Gets to Be Indian?, scholar and writer Dina Gilio Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) explores how ethnic fraud and the commodification of Indianness has resulted in mass