Recognition, Urban NDN Style
The Social Poetics of Pre-1980s Intertribal Newspapers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23488124 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Siobhan Senier (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 221-236 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781108891189.017 |
| OpenAlex | W4403971625 |
| ISBN | 9781108891189 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
Anger and frustration over Indigenous ethnic identity fraud have reached fever pitch across social and official media, within cultural and political institutions, and in Indigenous communities. It seems a day doesn’t pass without new revelations of people who have lied about and capitalized on Indigenous identity. Joy Harjo decried such “identity crimes,” saying that “Some claim identity by tenuous family story and some are perpetrating outright fraud.” These arguments go beyond simply outing individuals; increasingly, they call for publishers, universities, and other institutions to do a better job of verifying Indian identity claims. In doing so, however, many are pulling toward a problematic benchmark: enrollment in a federally recognized tribe. I respond to this with a reading of two urban intertribal newspapers – Los Angeles’ Talking Leaf and Boston’s The Circle – published before many tribes achieved their federal recognition. For Native nations that have experienced ethnocide, state detribalization, and rejection of their federal recognition claims, such newspapers have helped tribal members find each other, remember their histories and collectively imagine their futures
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |