Claiming tribal identity [electronic resource] : the Five Tribes and the politics of federal acknowledgment / Mark Edwin Miller.

9780806150512 electronic book
0806150513 electronic book
9780806143781
0806143789

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2013]

English

1 online resource (xiv, 475 pages) : illustrations

E78.O45 .M56 2013eb

323.1197

"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's website.

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