The Southeast Syndrome: Notes on Indian Descendant Recruitment Organizations and Their Perceptions of Native American Culture

Quinn, William W.

doi:10.2307/1185054

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Section: The American Indian Population Boommentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For some, embracing American Indian heritage – as opposed to other heritages or none at all – may be motivated by hopes of gaining political, financial, or social benefits (c.f., Quinn 1990). For others, it may be a heartfelt identity awakening, made possible by the freedoms of self-definition afforded whites (c.f., Fitzgerald 2007; Sturm 2011).…”

Section: The American Indian Population Boommentioning

confidence: 99%

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More Than One Million New American Indians in 2000: Who Are They?

Liebler

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2014

Demography

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More than a million people reported their race as American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) in the 2000 U.S. Census but did not do so in the 1990 Census. We ask: (1) Which subgroups had the greatest numerical growth? (2) Which subgroups had the greatest proportional increase? And (3) are the 2000 single-race AIANs and the 1990 AIANs the same set of people? We use full-count and high-density decennial census data; adjust for birth, death, and immigration; decompose on age, gender, Latino origin, education, and birth state; and compare the observed subgroup sizes in 2000 to the sizes expected based on 1990 counts. The largest numerical increases were among adolescent and middle-aged non-Latinos, non-Latino women, and adults with no college degree. Latinos, women, highly-educated adults, and people born in Eastern states had the largest proportionate gains. The ability to report multiple races in 2000 and the new federal definition of “American Indian” may have especially affected these groups, though personal identity changes are probably also involved. We find that thousands of new Latino AIANs reported only one race in 2000. Also, many 1990 AIANs reported multiple races in 2000. Thus, the 1990 AIANs and 2000 single-race AIANs are not always the same individuals.

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Section: The American Indian Population Boommentioning

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Section: The American Indian Population Boommentioning

confidence: 99%

More Than One Million New American Indians in 2000: Who Are They?

Liebler

Ortyl

2014

Demography

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“…Some scholars argue that the epidemic of false claims to Native identity derives from people with obscure antecedents who have swapped their ethnic identities for Native only to use it as leverage in the play of interest-group politics (CLIFTON 1989:16). Others feel that sometimes even individuals who possess a modest degree of Native ancestry but look White attempt to illegitimately exchange their racial identity for a more romanticand sometimes more economically profitableone (QUINN 1990). Such disputes have begun to wreak havoc in Native communities.…”

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Powwow Regalia in Identity Performance and Authentication

Cselényi

2023

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Through personal narratives of powwow involvement and motivation for dancing, this essay examines the ways in which regional and personal identities are being formed, adjusted, negotiated, and expressed through dance regalia at powwows in the Midwestern United States. Dancers use clothes as an explicit marker of their Native identity and powwows as a justifying context for their ideologies of authenticity. Powwow involvement is also used to consolidate, reclaim, craft, revive, and create an identity that authenticates one's place in the powwow community in which internal and external roles and rules reinforce each other. Giving voice to different constituents at Midwestern powwows, from Natives to non-Native enthusiasts, the study explores the factors that influence the bases and strategies of such authentication, as well as the rhetoric by which these ideologies are expressed.

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“…In each census from 1960 to 1990, the American Indian population jumped by hundreds of thousands. Researchers responded with demographic error of closure studies highlighting identity change as a major cause (Eschbach 1993;Harris 1994;Passel 1976Passel , 1997Passel and Berman 1986) and qualitative documentation of formerly non-Indian adults transforming into people with heartfelt American Indian identities (Fitzgerald 2007;Liebler 2001;Nagel 1995Nagel , 1996Quinn 1990;Sturm 2011). Prior work suggests at least three reasons for the large net increase between 1990 and 2000. First, negative stereotypes and cultural repression that previously curbed identification have waned such that lifetime American Indians are more willing to publicly embrace this identification (Cornell 1988;Nagel 1995Nagel , 1996Thornton 1990).…”

Section: The American Indian Population Boommentioning

confidence: 99%