| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 248 pages) : maps |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Politics of Indigenous Identity; 2. The State and Indigenous Peoples; 3. Who Are the Indigenes?; 4. Unrecognized Tribes, Unrecognized Peoples of the United States; 5. Other U.S. Issues; 6. First Nations in Canada; 7. Indigenous Peoples of Asia, Africa, Meso- and South America, Eurasia, and Europe; Conclusions; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Map: Location of indigenous peoples of the Americas; Map: Location of indigenous peoples of Africa, Eurasia, Asia, and Europe |
| Summary |
Beginning with his own work along the northwest coast of North America and drawing on contemporary examples from South America, Asia, Africa, and Europe, Bruce Granville Miller examines how national governments classify, govern, and control the indigenous populations within their boundaries through administrative, judicial, and economic means. One telling consequence of such regulation strategies is that certain indigenous peoples become unrecognized-their ethnic identities and heritages fail to find legal register and thus empowerment within the very state organizations that manage other aspects of their lives. In the United States alone reside two hundred thousand unrecognized indigenous individuals, some members of indigenous communities that were dropped from the roster of tribes and others whose ancestors were overlooked. Miller also considers some important differences between the fluid nature of ethnic identity for some indigenous peoples and the more rigid notion of identity encoded in many state regulations |
| Analysis |
Cultural identity |
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Indigenous populations |
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Minorities |
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Nation state |
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Population policy |
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Africa |
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Asia |
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Canada |
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Latin America |
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United States |
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International comparisons |
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Overseas item |
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Tribal communities |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- Government relations.
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Indigenous peoples -- Ethnic identity.
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Indigenous peoples -- Classification
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Indigenous peoples
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Indigenous peoples -- Ethnic identity
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Indigenous peoples -- Government relations
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| Genre/Form |
Classification
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0803203446 |
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9780803203440 |
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0803232322 |
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9780803232327 |
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1280423625 |
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9781280423628 |
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9786610423620 |
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6610423628 |
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