{"product_id":"native-acts-9780822348511","title":"Native Acts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA passionate call for Native peoples to decolonize their own concepts and self-determination projects\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is an important study that challenges prevailing ideas about native traditions and cultures and what is authentically native. It invokes a timely call to scholars, tribal leaders, and policy makers to rethink and examine critically how we use terminology and notions that may reinforce social\u003cbr\u003einjustice and inequalities inherited from the past.” - Mark Edwin Miller, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNative Acts\u003c\/i\u003e is a brave, engaging, and important book. Joanne Barker gracefully and confidently tackles some of the thorniest issues in Indian Country, from the political and moral consequences of claiming Native authenticity to same-sex marriage, disenrollment, Christian conservatism, and conflicts within and between tribal nations. This is one of the most sensitive, lively, and theoretically sophisticated treatments of the critical questions of authenticity, law, and social formation in all of Native American studies.”—\u003cb\u003eJessica R. Cattelino\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eHigh Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNative Acts\u003c\/i\u003e is a significant work with broad appeal across many fields of study with its interdisciplinary approach to legal issues of the politics of recognition, membership, and tradition. The focus on contested histories, notions of cultural authenticity, and battles over legal legitimacy is accomplished with incisive critical analysis and sophisticated theorization. Joanne Barker provides a much needed investigation into race, gender, and sexual politics as they intersect and inflect indigeneity and governance with regard to questions of belonging and exclusion.”—\u003cb\u003eJ. Kēhaulani Kauanui\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eHawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNative Acts \u003c\/i\u003eis an important and thoughtful challenge to the political position that ‘tradition’ is an acceptable rationale for excluding those whom the politically powerful deem ‘non-traditional.’” -- Jo Carrillo * Great Plains Research *\u003cbr\u003e“Barker’s book is a provocative examination of the social and historical context in which some Native nations have equated cultural authenticity with legal legitimacy.... This book is a bold statement. Despite its theoretical density, any scholar, native activist, or student who is contemplating the meaning of sovereignty, self-determination, and the processes of decolonization for Native peoples must read this book.” -- Kelly M. Branham * PoLAR *\u003cbr\u003e“This is an important study that challenges prevailing ideas about native traditions and cultures and what is authentically native. It invokes a timely call to scholars, tribal leaders, and policy makers to rethink and examine critically how we use terminology and notions that may reinforce social injustice and inequalities inherited from the past.” -- Mark Edwin Miller * Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introductions 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Recognition \u003cbr\u003e 1. Of the “Indian Tribe” 27\u003cbr\u003e 2. In \u003ci\u003eCherokee v. Delaware\u003c\/i\u003e 41\u003cbr\u003e Part II: Membership \u003cbr\u003e 3. Of the “Indian Member” 81\u003cbr\u003e 4. In \u003ci\u003eMartinez v. Santa Clara\u003c\/i\u003e (and Vice Versa) 98\u003cbr\u003e 5. In Disenrollment 146\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Tradition \u003cbr\u003e 6. Of Marriage and Sexuality 189\u003cbr\u003e 7. Origins 217\u003cbr\u003e Notes 229\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 249\u003cbr\u003e Index 277","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406063083863,"sku":"9780822348511","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/native-acts-9780822348511","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}