Abstract:Indigenous citizenship and the status of the Indigenous citizen in both the United States and Canada are multilayered issues marked by inconsistencies and contradictions and by tensions of affiliation between different polities, most prominently the tribal nation and the settler nation-state. Literary texts by Native American and First Nations authors have consistently addressed such tensions and presented complex narratives of Indigenous belonging, rights, and notions of community, both within and against nat… Show more
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