Who is an Indian?
Subtitle: race, place, and the politics of indigeneity in the Americas
By: edited by Maximilian C. Forte
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780802098184; 9780802095527
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Politics and culture; Ethnic identity; Relations interethniques; Autochtones; Indians of North America; Indiens d'Amérique; Politique et culture; Indians; Aspect politique; Ethnic relations; Ethnicité; Indigenous peoples; Political aspects; Identité ethnique; Ethnicity
Description: "Who is an Indian? This is possibly the oldest question facing Indigenous peoples across the Americas, and one with significant implications for decisions relating to resource distribution, conflicts over who gets to live where and for how long, and clashing principles of governance and law. For centuries, the dominant views on this issue have been strongly shaped by ideas of both race and place. But just as important, who is permitted to ask, and answer this question?

This collection examines the changing roles of race and place in the politics of defining Indigenous identities in the Americas. Drawing on case studies of Indigenous communities across North America, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America, it is a rare volume to compare Indigenous experience throughout the western hemisphere. The contributors question the vocabulary, legal mechanisms, and applications of science in constructing the identities of Indigenous populations, and consider ideas of nation, land, and tradition in moving indigeneity beyond race."--pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: "Who is an Indian?" : the cultural politics of a bad question  -- Maximilian C. Forte; title: Inuitness and territoriality in Canada  -- Donna Patrick; title: Federally unrecognized Indigenous communities in Canadian contexts  -- Bonita Lawrence; title: The canary in the coal mine : what sociology can learn from ethnic identity debates among American Indians  -- Eva Marie Garroutte and C. Matthew Snipp; title: "This sovereignty thing" : nationality, blood, and the Cherokee resurgence  -- Julia M. Coates; title: Locating identity : the role of place in Costa Rican Chorotega identity  -- Karen Stocker; title: Carib identity, racial politics, and the problem of indigenous recognition in Trinidad and Tobago  -- Maximilian C. Forte; title: Encountering indigeneity : the international funding of indigeneity in Peru  -- José Antonio Lucero; title: The colour of race : Indians and progress in a centre-left Brazil  -- Jonathan W. Warren -- Conclusion:; title: Seeing beyond the state and thinking beyond the state of sight -- Maximilian C. Forte.