Acknowledgments
Introduction: Citizenship and Sovereignty
Chapter 1: Policing Belonging, Protecting Identity: The Pamunkey
Indian Tribe of Virginia
Chapter 2: From Fluid Lists to Fixed Rolls: The Catawba Indian
Nation of South Carolina
Chapter 3: Learning the Language of "Blood": The Mississippi Band
of Choctaw Indians
Chapter 4: Contests of Sovereignty: The Eastern Band of Cherokee
Indians
Chapter 5: Nation Building and Self-Determination: The Seminole
Tribe of Florida and the
Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida
Conclusion: Who Belongs?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Mikaëla M. Adams is an assistant professor of history at the University of Mississippi.
"A much-needed exploration of the complexities and stresses that
Native nations face in their efforts to maintain control over
citizenship and national identity within their communities...Who
Belongs? is a wonderfully detailed testament to the many
complexities of identity, community, territory, and cultural
connectivity that constitute not just the Native nations explored
in this text but also others spreadacross Indian country...It is a
valuable
addition to the historiography of the Native South, to critical
identity and race studies in the United States, and to the wider
canon of federal Indian law and American Indian sovereignty." --
Paul McKenzie-Jones
, Journal of Southern History
"Adams has taken on an incredible task in chronicling the histories
of six tribes from colonialism to citizenship, and readers will
appreciate the legal ethnohistory of tribal citizenship practices
she offers" -- Katrina Jagodinsky, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
Journal of American Ethnic Hisory
"Adams has authored a wonderful study of citizenship and belonging
in the Native South. The book is well conceived, thoroughly
researched, and lucidly written. Her arguments are clearly outlined
in the introduction and cleverly tied together in the conclusion.
In between she effectively illustrates how six southern tribal
nations strategically acted to define and protect their identity in
the twentieth century.
Scholarship on southern Indians in the post-removal era is
flourishing, and this book is a significant contribution to the
field."--Christopher Arris Oakley, The North Carolina Historical
Review
"Mikaela Adams has produced a very original, well-researched, and
badly needed study of citizenship and sovereignty in the modern
Native American South....Her narrative is carefully crafted and the
stories lively. Her usage of the available sources is
comprehensive. Most important, the issues of nationhood,
citizenship, and sovereignty that she grapples with swirl today in
Native communities, and as more scholars begin to reevaluate Native
American history of
all eras, this book will prove incredibly insightful."--Kevin
Kokomoor, H-AmIndian
"This is a stunning piece of scholarship on Native identity. By
understanding Native communities in the South through the lenses of
sovereignty and self-determination, this book upends old approaches
and makes a vital contribution to our understanding of Native
histories and cultures. It places their voices and experiences
first, reminding us that those communities have never ceded control
of their own narratives."--Clyde Ellis, author of A Dancing
People:
Powwow Culture on the Southern Plains
"Written in clear and engaging prose, Adams provides a sweeping
analysis of the politics of belonging among six indigenous nations
of the American South. The research is staggering in its breadth.
But the discussion of each tribe's strategy in defining citizenship
is still deeply attentive to local circumstances, showing the
convergent and divergent ways in which Native peoples negotiated
race, religion, resources, and relationships as they defined and
refined
their nationhood. It is an essential read in studies of the Native
South."--Angela Pulley Hudson, author of Real Native Genius: How an
Ex-Slave and a White Mormon became Famous Indians
"In compelling fashion, Who Belongs? reveals the complicated
chemistry and history behind the contemporary struggles over tribal
citizenship. Contemporary Indian tribes are free to choose their
own qualifications for membership, but Adams deftly shows us how
different cultural and political terrains have led Natives to
choose differently. This is an important and timely book and one
that will undoubtedly shape the future of tribal
sovereignty."--Andrew K. Frank, author of Creeks and Southerners:
Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier
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