Native tribal membership is politically constructed through shifting and gendered standards.
Evidence
An example of co-creation comes from the changing standards used in determining Native tribal membership and identity. Native American identity has been determined differently during the history of settler colonialism in the Americas. Self-identification on the census, externallyimposed standards like blood quantum that renders anyone with mixed white and the requisite amount of Native ancestry a Native, and internal tribal recognition or non-recognition, are all means by which the question has been settled. And some tribes refuse to recognize African and Native descended peoples as Native, resulting in the denial of tribal membership. In Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez, the tribe decided to exclude the Ms. Martinez’s daughter from inclusion in the tribe because she married a Navajo man. Male members of the tribe were not similarly excluded. Ms. Martinez and her daughter sued but lost. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 84 (
#expands, via linked claim)
An example of co-creation comes from the changing standards used in determining Native tribal membership and identity. Native American identity has been determined differently during the history of settler colonialism in the Americas. Self-identification on the census, externallyimposed standards like blood quantum that renders anyone with mixed white and the requisite amount of Native ancestry a Native, and internal tribal recognition or non-recognition, are all means by which the question has been settled. And some tribes refuse to recognize African and Native descended peoples as Native, resulting in the denial of tribal membership. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 84 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Native tribal membership rules co-construct race with gender and settler logics — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 84; Who counts as Native varies with shifting settler-colonial standards — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 84; Cultural power operates through a constantly shifting boundary of what counts as tradition — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1016 (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- Native tribal membership rules co-construct race with gender and settler logics
#expands(0.95) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 84 - Who counts as Native varies with shifting settler-colonial standards
#corroborates(0.90) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 84 - Tribes can exclude members on gendered marriage lines
#exemplifies(0.90) - Colonial governance positioned subjects through intertwined racial and gendered classification.
#corroborates(0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1661 - Colonial law transmuted cultural communities into political ones
#corroborates(0.85) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 39 - Cultural power operates through a constantly shifting boundary of what counts as tradition
#expands(0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1016 - Modern statehood is constitutively racial and gendered, not contingently so
#expands(0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 8 - The substance behind democratic homogeneity shifts historically, from religious conviction to national belonging.
#expands(0.75) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 176 - Tribal nationalism differs from Western chauvinism by treating nationality as an inner soul quality
#expands(0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 576 - Ethnic communities are internally sites of renegotiation between traditional and adopted values
#expands(0.72) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 333