Who counts as Native varies with shifting settler-colonial 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. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 84

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the earlier chapter claim that racecraft tools honed on Native Americans get retargeted — here showing the instability of the Native category itself. — connects to: Inconsistencies in colonial racial categories reveal latent distinctions rather than errors; Colonial decree-making reclassified educated Africans as natives outside their home communes — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 524; Colonial rule manufactured political identities that it then naturalized as culture — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 45 (+3 more)
• SHARE: The detail that Blackness negates Native identity while whiteness does not (in the footnote) is a sharp tidbit for anyone working on comparative racialization.

Broader Connections

• Colonial decree-making reclassified educated Africans as natives outside their home communes #exemplifies (0.82) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 524
• Colonial rule manufactured political identities that it then naturalized as culture #corroborates (0.75) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 45
• Colonial law transmuted cultural communities into political ones #exemplifies (0.75) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 39
• Inconsistencies in colonial racial categories reveal latent distinctions rather than errors #expands (0.72)