Indian Domesticity, Settler Regulation, and the Limits of the Race/Politics Distinction
Abstract:Within federal Indian law, Indianness is presented as tied to belonging to the sovereign collective of the tribe as opposed to an individual quality separate from matters of governance. However, in such policy, Indianness also represents the innate/ingrained characteristics of a racialized population. Indigenous governance is made to pivot around some version of the privatized family, delimiting the scope of Native peoplehood through its repeated linkage to the scene of (racial) procreation. These dynamics can… Show more
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