Includes bibliographical references (pages 425- 455) and index.
Contents:
List of illustrations -- Foreword / Chadwick Conrtassel Smith -- Introduction -- Indian renaissance in the Southeast -- The genesis of a conflict : the Five Tribes and the birth of the federal acknowledgment process -- Vetted tribes : the Poarch Band of Creek Indians and the Jena Band fo Choctaw Indians -- Contested tribes : the Lower Muskogee Creek Tribe and the MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians -- "Fraudulent tribes" and "Fake Cherokees" : the Five Tribes and the politics of Indian authenticity -- The numbers game : the Lumbees, the MOWA Band, and the economics of tribal recognition -- Conclusion -- List of abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary:
Who counts as an American Indian? Which groups qualify as Indian tribes? These questions have become increasingly complex in the past several decades, and federal legislation and the rise of tribal-owned casinos have raised the stakes in the ongoing debate. In this revealing study, historian Mark Edwin Miller describes how and why dozens of previously unrecognized tribal groups in the southeastern states have sought, and sometimes won, recognition, often to the dismay of the Five Tribe--the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles. -- Publisher website.
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